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Hearings nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rotation person been completed successful 122 Assembly constituencies adjacent arsenic the proceeding and verification signifier is scheduled to extremity connected Saturday (February 14).
So far, 39,297 individuals person been excluded from the elector rotation aft hearings, Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar said connected Friday. The hearings successful the remaining constituencies are expected to beryllium completed by Saturday.
Names removed from the rotation see those of 4,217 voters who died during the SIR enumeration phase, 1,630 individuals who relinquished Indian citizenship and 33,450 individuals who person shifted their locations.
Theye were excluded aft due verification and connected the ground of capable reasons, Mr. Kelkar said.
The CEO is scheduled to clasp a gathering with the governmental parties connected the result of the SIR connected Tuesday.
EC officials to sojourn Kerala
Senior officials of the Election Commission (EC) of India volition sojourn Kerala connected February 22 and 23 successful the run-up to the 2026 Assembly elections, Mr. Kelkar said. The EC delegation volition dwell of Deputy Election Commissioners who caput assorted divisions successful the EC.
“We volition contiguous earlier them the steps that we person taken for the behaviour of the elections. Based connected their feedback, we volition plug immoderate gaps successful the system,” helium said.
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is besides expected to sojourn the State astatine a aboriginal date, though the docket has not been finalised.
As portion of the preparations for the elections, grooming plans for predetermination officials person besides been finalised, Mr. Kelkar said.
Vote Vandi flagged off
Mr. Kelkar flagged disconnected the ‘Vote Vandi’ — Model Demonstration Vans for Electrinic Voting Machine (EVM) Awareness — successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Friday arsenic portion of the elector consciousness campaigns up of the 2026 Assembly polls.
There volition beryllium 1 van for each Assembly constituency. The vehicles for the 14 constituencies successful Thiruvananthapuram territory were flagged disconnected from the Kanakakkunnu Palace premises connected Friday.
