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EC announces phase two of SIR across 12 states, UTs
Hindustan Times Jaipur
|October 28, 2025
The Election Commission will conduct phase two of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in 12 states and Union Territories, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar announced on Monday.
BLOs verify the documents of voters during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Patna in August. ECI began the mammoth exercise with Bihar, which goes to polls next week.
(ANI FILE)
The states and Union Territories are: the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
Among these, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, and West Bengal will go to the polls in 2026. Kumar clarified that in Assam, where polls are also due in 2026, the revision of electoral rolls will be announced separately. The CEC said the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) is the ninth such exercise since Independence, with the last one happening in 2002-04.
This story is from the October 28, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Jaipur.
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