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Barricades being unloaded from a police van in New Delhi on Friday. | Photo Credit: BHAWIKA CHHABRA The New Delhi district was placed under a security lockdown on Friday, a day before the proposed youth-led protest at Jantar Mantar against alleged irregularities in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls, with thousands of…
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Voters who recieved notices to prove eligibility in ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive, with documents, at a hearing place, Govt. Boys Sr. Sec. School, Rajouri Garden Ext, in New Delhi on on September 17, 2026. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Vaishali, 29, reached her assigned venue in Chandni Chowk constituency at 4.20 p.m….
Delhi CEO Ashok Kumar briefing the media on Monday. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma More than six in every 10 names left out of Delhi’s draft roll published on Monday are marked ‘permanently shifted’ and account for the largest share of the 47.56 lakh exclusions in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) drive. Of…
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The development comes a week before the draft electoral roll is expected to be published following the SIR enumeration. File. NEW DELHI The number of polling booths in Delhi has increased from 13,033 to 14,947, with the Election Commission (EC) having approved the rationalisation of booths to cap the number of electors at each booth…
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Those who get excluded from the draft roll need to submit Form 6 and a declaration between August 24 and September 23. | Photo Credit: File Photo A day after the enumeration phase of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Delhi ended, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) on Tuesday struggled to verify and…
Booth-Level Officers in west Delhi’s Vikas Nagar area. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the Election Commission’s (EC) response to a public interest litigation (PIL) plea challenging the “large-scale” deployment of government school teachers as Booth-Level Officers (BLOs) and enumeration staff for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR)…
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Booth Level Officers (BLOs) distribute enumeration forms during a house visit as part of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls at Banjara Hills in Hyderabad. | Photo Credit: RAMAKRISHNA G. Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy of the Telangana High Court on Monday asked the Election Commission of India to consider a petitioner’s request to provide…
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