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The names of 6.5 crore electors were removed from the draught electoral rolls of 9 States and 3 Union Territories (UTs) published successful the past days arsenic portion of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) being carried retired by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Before signifier 2 SIR, which commenced connected October 27, 2025, the 9 States and 3 UTs had 50.9 crore electors.
After the abstracted draught rolls were published, the fig of electors dwindled to 44.4 crore.
ECI officials said the names of those removed from the draught rolls person been enactment successful the 'ASD' oregon Absent, Shifted and Dead/Duplicate category.
The ECI officials had earlier cited disposable trends to accidental that the postulation of enumeration forms has been "much less" successful municipality areas compared to agrarian areas of the States and UTs covered successful the SIR exercise.
Descent into farce: On the Election Commission of India, the SIR
The draught electoral rotation for Uttar Pradesh, published connected Tuesday (January 6) aft the SIR exercise, excluded 2.89 crore voters and retained 12.55 crore.
The 2.89 crore voters, oregon 18.7%, of the 15.44 crore listed earlier could not beryllium included successful the draught database owed to deaths, imperishable migration oregon aggregate registrations, helium said astatine a property conference.
Phase 2 of the SIR began successful Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal connected November 4, 2025.
In Assam, a abstracted 'special revision' of electoral rolls is successful progress.
The past SIR successful States volition service arsenic the cut-off date, conscionable arsenic the 2003 elector database of Bihar was utilized by the ECI for intensive revision.
Most states had the past SIR of the elector database betwixt 2002 and 2004.
The determination assumes value successful the aftermath of a crackdown successful assorted states connected ‘illegal migrants’, including those from Bangladesh and Myanmar.
