Polling for the long-delayed Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections concluded on Thursday amid widespread complaints from voters and political parties, setting the stage for a closely watched counting day on January 16. The civic polls, held after a gap of nine years, were marred by reports of voter list discrepancies, administrative lapses and concerns over polling…
The Election Commission on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it functions as the original authority in matters relating to electoral rolls and conduct of polls and its opinion is binding on the President if a person acquires citizenship of another country. The panel submitted that the consequence of an adverse finding during the Special…
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has once again written to chief election commission (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar raising questions about the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in poll-bound West Bengal. This time the TMC chief has claimed that the Artificial Intelligence-driven digitization errors in the 2002 electoral rolls were causing widespread hardship to genuine voters…
A 79-year-old man long presumed dead by his family returned to his hometown Khatauli in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh to collect documents for the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal, Sharif Ahmad, settled in West Bengal for the past many years, had gone ‘missing’ since 1997 when he moved out of…
The Election Commission has once again revised the schedule for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh. The with the draft voter list will now be published on January 6, 2026, and the final list on March 6. This is the third revision in the SIR schedule in Uttar Pradesh…
