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Draft rolls for 3 states, 1 UT released after SIR
Hindustan Times Pune
|December 24, 2025
Over 7% of names were deleted in MP, nearly 9% in Kerala, 13% in C’garh and 21% in Andaman
Three states and a Union territory on Tuesday published their draft electoral rolls after the first phase of the special intensive revision with Andaman and Nicobar Islands recording the highest percentage of potential deletions of names at nearly 21% and Madhya Pradesh registering the lowest percentage at 7.4%.
Of the 12 states and Union Territories where the controversial exercise began last month, 11 have already published their draft rolls. Only Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state where the draft rolls will be published on New Year's Eve, remains.
This story is from the December 24, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Pune.
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