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The hearings and verification signifier of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rotation ended successful Kerala connected Saturday, indicating that the SIR workout is drafting to a adjacent successful the State.
The last rotation volition beryllium published connected February 21 arsenic per the docket published by the Election Commission of India (EC). Till Friday, adjacent to 40,000 radical had been eliminated from the rotation pursuing hearings. Definitive information connected the exclusions are expected to beryllium retired successful the coming days. Excluded individuals see voters who died during the SIR enumeration phase, radical who person relinquished citizenship oregon moved to different places.
Notices were issued to 36,88,948 radical who were successful the ‘no mapping’ and ‘logical discrepancies’ lists and their hearings person been completed, Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar said. The SIR information was being compiled and the details would beryllium released soon, helium said. Mr. Kelkar has scheduled a gathering with governmental parties connected Tuesday.
The house-to-house enumeration signifier of the SIR had kicked disconnected successful the State connected November 4, 2025. Under the archetypal docket of the EC, the hearings and verification was to beryllium held from December 9 to January 31, 2026, with the last rolls to beryllium published connected February 7. But the docket was aboriginal revised by the EC pursuing repeated demands from the governmental parties and the State authorities and the involution of the Supreme Court.
At the decision of the house-to-house enumeration signifier of the Kerala SIR, the names of 24.08 lakh voters stood deleted successful the draught rolls published connected December 23. In all, 2.54 crore voters figured successful the draught roll. As galore arsenic 19.32 lakh voters successful the draught rotation besides figured successful the ‘unmapped’ list.
