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Kanta Prasad of Northwest Delhi’s Sultanpur Majra is one of the several people whose names have been removed from the electoral roll, after being categorised as ‘dead’. Photo: Special Arrangement Virma, a 71-year-old resident of Malviya Nagar’s Jagdamba Camp, has been categorised as dead in the list published by Delhi Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) website…
Pooja Devi, 38, has been living at the same address in Kalkaji for the past two decades, employed in domestic work, raising her children, and regularly voting in elections. When the special intensive revision of electoral rolls began in the national capital in June, however, she did not get any enumeration form. Once the draft…
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The petitioners challenged the mandate requiring BLAs of political parties to give a personal undertaking certifying they have personally verified all details in the enumeration forms. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Delhi High Court on Thursday (September 3, 2026) ruled that booth level agents of political parties are not liable for verifying all…
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Two days after Delhi’s draft roll was published under the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) drive, several voters who submitted their enumeration forms to Booth Level Officers (BLOs) found their names missing from the roll and marked ‘permanently shifted’ or ‘absent/untraceable’ despite the forms having been officially signed and digitised. The Hindu has verified at least…
Door-to-door SIR exercise being conducted in Delhi. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The draft electoral roll for Delhi was published on August 31, 2026, after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision or SIR, which began on June 20 and culminated on August 17. As many as 47.7 lakh electors out of the 1.45…
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With over 33 lakh voters set to face notices and hearings after the draft electoral roll is published on August 31, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) have flagged gaps in their training ahead of the next phase of special intensive revision (SIR) in Delhi. The claims and objections phase, which begins with the publication of the…
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