No eligible Indian should be left out of electoral rolls: Gyanesh Kumar

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Chief Election Commissioner of India Gyanesh Kumar during a sojourn  astatine  Tapovan caves and hills, successful  Deoghar district, Jharkhand, connected  January 5, 2026.

Chief Election Commissioner of India Gyanesh Kumar during a sojourn astatine Tapovan caves and hills, successful Deoghar district, Jharkhand, connected January 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar connected Monday (January 5, 2026) said that the extremity of the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) is to guarantee that “no eligible Indian national is near retired of the electoral roll”.

The CEC, who was connected a two-day sojourn to Jharkhand, said that a “clean” electoral rotation is the instauration of ideology and hailed booth-level officers (BLOs) arsenic the “foundation” of specified rolls.

Mr. Kumar said that during his sojourn to Deoghar and Dumka districts, helium interacted with BLOs and exuded assurance that the SIR successful Jharkhand volition beryllium creaseless and transparent. He said that BLOs successful Jharkhand are acceptable for the exercise.

“Although it has not yet been announced successful Jharkhand, the cognition of the full process and the preparations made by the BLOs bespeak that during the SIR successful the State, the extremity of ensuring that nary eligible Indian national is near retired of the electoral rotation volition beryllium achieved,” helium said.

Mr. Kumar, who was addressing a dialog programme with BLOs successful Deoghar, said that the Election Commission has issued caller individuality cards to BLOs specified that door-to-door enactment is smoother and radical bash not presumption them with suspicion.

“The Election Commission has present issued individuality cards for BLOs. They request not look immoderate hesitation during door-to-door verification,” Mr. Kumar, accompanied by Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Jharkhand K. Ravi Kumar, said.

Published - January 05, 2026 08:19 p.m. IST

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