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As contention continues implicit the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026) said nary appeals were filed aft the “purification of the electoral rolls” and nary re-polls were required successful Bihar, wherever the archetypal signifier of the workout was conducted up of past year’s elections.
Delivering his inaugural code astatine the India International Conference connected Democracy and Election Management (IICDEM) 2026, Mr. Kumar said that a “pure” voters’ database was the cardinal to strengthening democracy.
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“Pure electoral rolls, including each elector arsenic per law, are indispensable to fortify ideology and for each the elections to beryllium held based connected the electoral rolls,” helium said.
He said the electoral rolls successful Bihar were revised amid aggravated nationalist scrutiny, adding, “From purification of rolls to the behaviour of elections, a large level of ratio was achieved by the section canvass machinery.”
“Bihar went for elections a fewer months ago. The archetypal measurement was the purification of the electoral rolls, including eligible electors. That signifier got completed, and nether electoral laws, determination is simply a proviso for the elector of immoderate Assembly conception to record an appeal, truthful that nary incorrect sanction gets included and nary close sanction gets excluded. You volition beryllium amazed with the ratio of the BLOs, the Electoral Registration Officers and the Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar that retired of 75 cardinal electors, the fig of appeals were zero,” helium said.
“Another feat which was achieved successful Bihar elections...there were astir a lakh polling stations...how galore re-polls were required -- zero. That was the level of accuracy and ratio attained by our returning officers, sectoral magistrates and presiding officers successful each and each booth,” helium said.
SIR signifier II is being conducted successful Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
Heads of 42 Election Management Bodies (EMBs) took portion successful the IICDEM plenary. The EMB Leaders’ Plenary is simply a forum that brings unneurotic heads and elder leaders of EMBs, on with Ambassadors/High Commissioners, for high-level exchanges connected ideology and predetermination management.
IICDEM-2026 is the largest league of its benignant ever hosted by India successful the tract of ideology and predetermination management. India shared the thematic priorities arsenic Chair of International IDEA for 2026, portion EMB Leaders and state representatives discussed planetary challenges facing ideology and predetermination administration.
