More than 4.42 lakh apply for inclusion in electoral rolls as of December 27 in Tamil Nadu

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People astatine  a peculiar   campy  to record  claims and objections to the draught  electoral roll, which was published connected  December 19 arsenic  portion  of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), successful  a polling presumption    astatine  Jagir Ammapalayam successful  Salem successful  Tamil Nadu connected  December 27, 2025.

People astatine a peculiar campy to record claims and objections to the draught electoral roll, which was published connected December 19 arsenic portion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), successful a polling presumption astatine Jagir Ammapalayam successful Salem successful Tamil Nadu connected December 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: E. Lakshmi Narayanan

A full of 4,42,070 radical person submitted Form 6/6A applications seeking inclusion arsenic electors betwixt December 19, erstwhile the claims and objections play began, and December 27.

On Saturday (December 27, 2025) unsocial much than 2.56 lakh radical visited polling stations crossed Tamil Nadu to taxable Form 6 applications for inclusion successful the electoral rolls, pursuing the Election Commission of India’s organisation of booth-level peculiar camps.

These peculiar camps were held connected Saturday (December 27) and Sunday (December 28) and volition beryllium conducted again connected January 3 and 4, 2026. These peculiar camps were meant to assistance citizens taxable claims and objections pursuing the work of the draught electoral rolls connected December 19 arsenic portion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

The claims and objections play volition stay unfastened until January 18, 2026.

According to the authoritative data, a full of 4,741 persons submitted Form 7 seeking exclusion of ineligible voters. In addition, astir 2.72 lakh Booth Level Agents (BLAs) appointed by six nationalist and six State parties are assisting successful the process. As of December 27, the BLAs of the DMK and the AIADMK submitted 24 applications each for inclusion, portion the AIADMK and the BJP submitted 63 and 1 form, respectively, for exclusion.

So far, nary applications person been submitted for either inclusion oregon exclusion by immoderate idiosyncratic isolated from the electors of that Assembly segment. The Election Commission had published the draught electoral rolls for Tamil Nadu connected December 19 successful which astir 97.37 lakh electors, retired of 6.41 crore, were deleted, bringing down the full electoral to 5.43 crore.

Published - December 28, 2025 06:00 p.m. IST

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