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Quest for perfect electoral rolls
Hindustan Times Chandigarh
|October 28, 2025
EC must guard against the SIR process leading to large-scale disenfranchisement
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he freshly announced special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in 12 states and Union Territories is orders of magnitude larger than the previous iteration in Bihar, and is likely to cover roughly half of India’s electorate.
This story is from the October 28, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Chandigarh.
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