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The names of 10.56 lakh voters person been deleted aft the special revision of electoral rolls successful Assam, wherever assembly polls would beryllium successful little than six months.
According to the integrated draught rolls released by the Election Commission of India (ECI) connected Saturday (December 27, 2025), the State has a full of 2,51,09,754 voters, excluding 93,021 D-Voters oregon doubtful voters. Additionally, the names of 10,56,291 voters person been deleted owed to death, shifting, oregon aggregate entries.
D-Voters are a class of voters successful Assam who person been disenfranchised by the authorities connected relationship of their alleged deficiency of due citizenship credentials. D-Voters are determined by peculiar tribunals nether the Foreigners Act, 1946, and the idiosyncratic declared arsenic a D-Voter is not fixed a elector card.
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All related particulars, specified arsenic name, property and photograph, of D-Voters person been carried guardant to the draught electoral rotation without immoderate change.
The draught rolls were published aft house-to-house verification of the peculiar revision was held from November 22 to December 20.
Now, voters volition beryllium capable to record claims and objections till January 22, 2026 and the last electoral rolls volition beryllium published connected February 10, a connection said.
Of the 10.56 lakh, 4,78,992 names were deleted due to the fact that of deaths, 5,23,680 voters were recovered to person moved from their registered addresses, and 53,619 demographically akin entries were identified for correction, it said.
The verification was conducted successful 61,03,103 households crossed the State, it added.
The workout progressive 35 District Election Officers (DEOs), 126 Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), 1,260 Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs), 29,656 Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and 2,578 BLO Supervisors, the connection said.
Political parties deployed 61,533 Booth Level Agents (BLAs) to assistance and show the process, it said.
While the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is underway successful 12 States and Union Territories, including Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, wherever elections would beryllium owed on with Assam, a peculiar revision was ordered by the ECI successful the northeastern State.
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar had said, "Under the Citizenship Act, determination are abstracted provisions for citizenship successful Assam. Under the supervision of the Supreme Court of India, the workout of checking citizenship is astir to beryllium completed". According to officials, the peculiar revision stands determination betwixt the yearly peculiar summary revision and the SIR.
The connection said the peculiar revision is aimed astatine preparing an error-free electoral rotation by facilitating enrolment of eligible un-enrolled electors, correction of clerical errors successful name, property and address, removing names of deceased persons, shifting electors, and identifying and deleting aggregate entries.
The State has a full of 31,486 polling stations pursuing rationalisation, it said.
