Tag: Voter
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EC Releases Draft Electoral Rolls and Deleted Voter Checklist for Bengal Forward of SIR 2026
Election Fee officers help voters at a assist desk camp for the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls-2026, in Sonagachi, Kolkata. File. | Photograph Credit score: PTI The Election Fee on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) revealed the draft electoral rolls of West Bengal based mostly on its enumeration suggestions. The Fee additionally revealed on its…
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West Bengal SIR Draft Launched: 58 Lakh Names Eliminated – Easy methods to Confirm and Restore Your Voter Standing
The Election Fee has launched an inventory of over 58 lakh voters faraway from the rolls. KOLKATA: Barely hours earlier than the publication of the draft electoral rolls in West Bengal, the place Meeting elections are due early subsequent yr, the Election Fee of India (ECI) on Tuesday morning uploaded the checklist of voters whose…
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Dispute Over Voter Notifications in Bihar: Native vs. Central Authority
As notices start going out on Tuesday to electors with the publication of draft rolls in 5 states and UTs below the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR), a procedural purple flag from Bihar has set off concern throughout the election equipment. Within the closing fortnight of the Bihar SIR in September, The Indian Specific has learnt,…
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Supreme Court docket: Outdated Voter Lists Can not Be Replicated for SIR
‘Trans-Border Motion Additionally Migration’ NEW DELHI: Supreme Court docket on Thursday mentioned SIR of electoral rolls, being carried out after greater than twenty years, can’t be a copy-paste of earlier voter lists and, logically, the voter enumeration by the Election Fee would come with an inquisitorial course of to determine, not decide, citizenship.Senior advocate Raju…
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Supreme Court docket: EC Lacks Authority to Confirm Voter Citizenship
The Supreme Court docket clarified that whereas the Election Fee can’t definitively decide citizenship, it could possibly inquire about it if doubts come up concerning voters. The apex courtroom emphasised that Indian citizenship is a constitutional prerequisite for voting, not merely a matter of residence and age. This ruling helps the EC’s stance on verifying…
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Supreme Courtroom Seeks Response from ECI on Assam’s Voter Roll Exemption Problem
The Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday issued discover to the Election Fee of India on a writ petition difficult the ECI’s resolution to conduct solely a “Particular Revision” of the electoral roll in Assam as an alternative of a “Particular Intensive Revision” forward of the 2026 Meeting elections. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya…
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SC Warns States on Voter Checklist Revision Non-Cooperation
The Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday sharply criticised reviews of Sales space Degree Officers (BLOs) and different officers concerned within the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) 2.0 train being threatened in West Bengal and different states, warning that continued obstruction might “trigger anarchy”. The apex court docket requested the Election Fee of India (ECI) to deliver any…
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Supreme Courtroom Weighs Inclusion of CAA Candidates in Voter Rolls All through SIR
The Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday (December 9) requested how people who’ve utilized for citizenship on the premise of the reduction given by the Citizenship Modification Act 2019 could possibly be provisionally included inside the voters’ file sooner than a final dedication of their citizenship standing. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and…
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Supreme Courtroom docket Listening to: State’s Accountability to Present Voter Ineligibility, Says Shadan Farasat
Supreme Courtroom docket listening to on SIR LIVE: Burden of proving ineligibility of an current voter is on the State, argues Shadan Farasat The Hindu Democracy’s paradox, the chosen people of the state The Hindu “If You Protect Submitting…”: Supreme Courtroom docket Irritated Over A lot of SIR Pleas NDTV ‘At current’s occasions are ignorant that they themselves…