The Election Commission has extended the deadline of SIR in many states from Delhi to Karnataka. Now the final voter list in Delhi will be published on October 19. In a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi, the Election Commission said that the draft roll of the voter list will now come on August 17 instead of August 5. Similarly, the process of door-to-door verification will now continue till August 8, which was earlier scheduled till July 29.

Delhi is part of the third phase of SIR, which was launched on May 14. After completion of the third phase, the SIR process will be completed in the entire country except Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Even before this, due to various reasons, changes have often been seen in the programs of SIR.

Final voter list will be released in Punjab on October 12

The Election Commission of India has made changes in the schedule of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter list in Punjab keeping in mind the eligibility date of October 1. According to the revised schedule, BLOs will do door-to-door verification till August 3. The draft voter list will be published on August 13 and the final voter list will be published on October 12.

The Election Commission of India has revised the schedule for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Punjab with reference to the qualifying date of 1st October.

As per the revised schedule, the draft publication will be on 13th August, and the final… pic.twitter.com/CBiob6H0J0

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) July 15, 2026

Final voter list will be released in Karnataka on October 19

Election Commission has made changes in the SIR program in Karnataka. According to the revised schedule, now BLOs in Karnataka will be able to do door-to-door verification till August 8, 2026. The draft will be released on August 17, while the final voter list will be released on October 19.

The Election Commission of India has revised the schedule for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Karnataka with reference to the qualifying date of 1st October.

As per the revised schedule, the draft publication will be on 17th August, and the final… pic.twitter.com/7rujQxB6dL

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) July 15, 2026

Final voter list will come in Telangana on October 12

The Election Commission of India has made changes in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) program of the voter list in Telangana keeping in mind the eligibility date of October 1. According to the revised schedule, the draft voter list will be published on August 10 and the final voter list will be published on October 12.

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The Election Commission of India has revised the schedule for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Telangana with reference to the qualifying date of 1st October.

As per the revised schedule, the draft publication will be on 10th August, and the final… pic.twitter.com/zjkvBUe4zu

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) July 15, 2026

Where did the monsoon suddenly disappear? It will rain like this in Delhi-NCR, UP and Bihar

In the draft voter list of Manipur, once again the number of women voters is more than that of men. This list was released on Sunday after the completion of ‘Special Intensive Revision’ (SIR). Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Arun Kumar Sinha said after the release of the draft voter list that considering July 1, 2026 as the eligibility date, there are a total of 19,34,399 registered voters in Manipur. These include 9,93,660 women, 9,40,446 men and 293 third-gender voters.

The CEO said that the sex ratio in the draft voter list is 1,057, which is much higher than the national average. 20,442 new voters have been added in the 18-19 age group. Sinha said that after the revision, names of a total of 1,58,677 voters (7.58 percent) were removed due to various reasons. These include 43,000 dead (2.05 percent), 34,740 voters who were not traced or were absent (1.66 percent), 72,473 voters who permanently migrated elsewhere (3.46 percent) and other reasons.

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round of claims and objections

After the construction of 85 new polling stations, their total number in the state has increased to 3,041. After the completion of the claims-objections process and verification, the final voter list will be released on September 6. The CEO said that during this period running from July 5 to August 4, any voter or recognized political party can lodge a claim or objection to include eligible voters or remove ineligible names. He said that its main objective is to include all new and missing eligible voters who have completed 18 years of age by July 1, 2026.

investigation process started

A total of 60 EROs and 84 AEROs will investigate the claims and objections received within the stipulated time. Also, voters will be able to correct errors in their personal information and register objection to any wrong name in the voter list. Sinha said that the successful completion of this phase is due to the mutual cooperation and collaboration of the District Election Officers (Deputy Magistrates or Commissioners and Collectors) of all the 16 districts, 60 Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), 84 Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs), 317 BLO Supervisors and 2,956 Booth Level Officers (BLOs) deployed at 2,956 polling stations. It was the result of the help of volunteers.

role of officers

The CEO said that field representatives of all the 10 recognized political parties (including their district presidents) also actively participated in the process and 6,363 Booth Level Agents (BLAs) were appointed by them. “At the beginning of the SIR process, there were only 5,003 BLAs in Manipur. The increased number of BLAs reflects the active participation of political parties and their representatives in this important electoral process,” he said.

Increased participation of BLA

BLOs contacted all the existing voters door-to-door to distribute the enumeration forms. After this, he made at least three more visits to collect the filled forms. Sinha said the BLA also made special efforts to ensure that no eligible voter was left out. All 2,956 BLOs held coordination meetings with their respective BLAs for field verification of absent, migrated, dead and duplicate voters. Help desks were also set up in the offices of the Chief Electoral Officer and all 16 District Election Officers (DEOs) to assist voters in filling the enumeration forms.

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This time many major changes have been made in the new book of NCERT Class 9. Now students will read about SIR related to the election process. At the same time, some explanations related to socialism, secularism and democracy already included in the book will not be seen the same in the new book. The new system has been added to these books. Under which children can understand the country’s constitution and democratic system in a new way. Discussion regarding these changes is intensifying in both education and politics.

Changed the way of explaining the Constitution

In this new book the Constitution has been explained not in the old way but in a new way. In this, more attention has been paid to how the Constitution was made, what work the Constituent Assembly did and how the democratic institutions of the country work. Besides, topics like equality, freedom, rights and responsibilities have also been included. In earlier books, the Preamble of the Constitution was taught in detail. And the meaning of the words written in it was also explained. But the introduction has not been included directly in the new book. Along with this, words like socialism and secularism have also not been presented as before.

Emergency joined class 9 for the first time

For the first time in this book of class 9, the Emergency of 1975 has also been included, in which it was told that at that time the democratic system of the country was affected and many decisions were discussed. It has been kept as an example to explain the challenges related to democracy.

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What is SIR and why was it added to the book?

In this new book, along with the responsibilities of the Election Commission, Special Intensive Revision i.e. SIR has also been explained. In the book, it has been explained how the process of updating and keeping the voter list correct is done. Now instead of four subjects, one book has been prepared, this time a book has been made by combining History, Geography, Political Science and Economics. Its objective is said to be to give the students a connected understanding instead of separate subjects.

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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that students should also be aware of the country’s history and its connection with democracy. He says that by reading such topics, we will understand better about the country in the upcoming videos.

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SIR Third Phase Start in India: Special intensive revision i.e. SIR has started in many states of the country. These include the states of Mizoram, Sikkim, Odisha and Manipur. The Election Commission has given this information. Let us tell you, the Election Authority had started the third phase of SIR on May 14 at different times in 16 states and three union territories.

During this phase which started on Saturday, BLOs will go door to door and distribute enumeration forms. Will deposit. Will also examine them. Voters can also submit their forms through BLO or online.

You can apply for registration through declaration form

If any voters are not able to submit their enumeration forms within the stipulated time limit, they can apply for registration as a new voter through Form 6 and the accompanying declaration form during the claim and objection time limit. According to the Election Commission, if the forms are received by the election registration officers on or before June 28, they will be included in the voters list.

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There are a total of 3.67 crore voters in the four states included in the currently ongoing SIR phase. Odisha has the highest number of voters. Their number is more than 3.34 crores. 38,123 BLOs and 8,391 BLAs are working for them. There are 8.75 lakh voters in Mizoram, 4.71 lakh in Sikkim and 20.92 lakh in Manipur.

Election Commission made this appeal to voters

The Election Commission has appealed to all eligible voters to actively participate in the SIR. Also cooperate with the officials involved in the process.

The Election Commission has said that SIR has been started to ensure that all eligible citizens are included in the voters list. Also, ineligible people can be prevented from participating.

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SIR duty in winter, census in summer and teachers in the field even during holidays. This is the real picture of teachers in government schools of India. Whether the school is closed or open, their responsibility is not limited to just the classroom. On the other hand, the developed countries of the world conduct their census in such a smart and systematic manner that they do not need professionals like teachers to roam from street to street. Let us first understand what the teachers of India are going through, then let us know how the census is conducted in other countries of the world (especially the West)…

SIR in winter, census in summer: ‘Extra’ burden on teachers

Between November and December of the year 2025, when winter had just started, the Election Commission conducted a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) campaign. This is the process of updating the voter list. To carry out this drive covering about 51 crore voters, the government made teachers Booth Level Officers (BLO). In this process which started from November 4, teachers had to go door to door for a whole month to distribute and collect forms. One highlight in Noida was that out of 2400 primary teachers, more than 1500 went on SIR duty, due to which the education of about 96,000 students was affected.

Now as soon as summer started, a new problem came to the teachers. More than 1 lakh government school teachers in Karnataka are being deployed for Census 2027 work. Teachers say that they have neither any leave nor rest. Many teachers had demanded exemption from SIR duty for those above 50 years of age, because teachers have also died during SIR duty in other states, but this demand was rejected.

Now comes the real question: How is census conducted in other countries of the world?

While our teachers are wandering from house to house in summer and winter, the magic of completing the census without human effort is visible in western countries. They do not have ‘backup’ for data like teachers do, so they have created technology and amazing systems.

1. America: ‘First you tell yourself, otherwise we will come’

America’s system is quite modern and they have implemented the concept of self-response on a large scale. First of all, a letter is sent to every household in which there is an option to go online and fill the form. If you do not fill online, then field agents go door to door.

Let us understand with an example: A special census was conducted in 2025 in ‘White House’, a city located in the US state of Tennessee. The first online response phase ran between July and August. After that, from September onwards, field representatives of the Census Bureau went door-to-door to those houses which had not responded online. These representatives are not teachers, but are staff of a specially appointed agency for this. Their target was that more and more people should fill the online form sitting at their home, so that the need to go door-to-door would be minimal.

2. Britain (UK): ‘Digital-first’ and team of experts

Britain last conducted the census in a ‘digital-first’ manner in 2021. This means that most people completed their census online. If anyone wanted a paper form, he could request it. In Britain, a census is conducted every 10 years. The government has also started preparations for the census to be held in 2031. Britain is so advanced in this matter that they are now focusing on online system for census. There, government teachers are not employed for this, rather this work is done by trained professionals of the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

3. Germany: The glory of ‘Register Best Census’

Germany has one of the smartest systems. They are moving towards ‘Register-Based Census’ i.e. Registerzensus. This means that the government already has the data of every citizen. It extracts data about job, address, taxes and other things from government records (such as resident registration, social security, employment records). Now he does not need to go to everyone’s house. Only those people are selected as samples, whose records do not have clarity. This is called ‘Wohnsitzanalyse’, i.e. residence analysis.

In June 2025, about 1 lakh people across Germany had to fill a short 5-minute form by post/online as a sample. In 2022, Germany had adopted a ‘hybrid’ model for the census, in which data of some people was collected along with existing register data, but now they are preparing for a completely register-based census.

4. Japan: A different style of modernity

Japan conducts census every 5 years. Their 22nd census was held in 2025. Here people are given the option to respond in three ways: online, by post, or by handing the form directly to the enquirer. Their target is also that more and more people should respond online so that the enquirers face minimum problems. However, leaving aside government school teachers, Japan has created a separate system for census taking.

The Japanese government wants more and more people to fill the online form. For those who cannot use the Internet, the old-fashioned paper form is sent by mail. If someone doesn’t respond to both, then the field inquisitors knock on their door. While in India, more than 70% of the work falls on teachers, Japan depends on professional agents or field representatives for census work.

So why such a big difference?

You must be wondering why it does not happen in these countries that teachers miss their studies? There are three big reasons behind this:

1. Data is ‘booked’ in advance: In western countries, the data of every citizen from birth to death is recorded in the computer system. They do not need to go door to door to find out how many people live in the city. This data is automatically obtained from tax, health care and birth-death registers. This is called register-based census. ‘Accounting’ is already going on there for every citizen. For example, Denmark and Norway completely follow this system, they do not have any field work for census.
2. Teachers are hired to teach: The government bureaucracy in these countries is so strong and special that they have special staff to collect data. There it is a legal belief that a teacher’s job is only to teach. In India, Section 27 of the RTE Act states that teachers should not be employed in non-educational work, except in cases like census, elections and disaster relief.
3. Budget and Operation Scale: India has such a large population and the conditions of the country are so diverse that even fully implementing the digital system is a challenge. Where Google or Internet access is difficult, one still has to go door to door.

‘Digital’ census for the first time in India, but still dependent on teachers

The biggest update here is that India is going to conduct its first digital census (Census 2027) in 2027. This will be the first census after 2011. The government has approved spending about Rs 11,718 crore on this in a cabinet meeting. In this, data collection will be done through mobile apps and people will have the option to fill the information online also. Pilot projects have also been done for this.

This digital census will also not be able to provide complete relief to the teachers because more than 34 lakh enquirers are still to be deployed for the work of inventorying and data collection, which also includes government school teachers. So even though phones or tablets have come instead of paper, it is still the teacher who does the work.

After the landslide victory in West Bengal, BJP has formed the government for the first time in the state. At the same time, TMC was reduced to 81 seats. TMC chief Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and MP Abhishek Banerjee had made serious allegations against the Election Commission regarding the Bengal election results. Minister Dilip Ghosh has given a befitting reply to Banerjee’s allegations.

What did Dilip Ghosh say?

During a conversation with news agency IANS, Dilip Ghosh said about Abhishek Banerjee’s statement that ‘as long as he was winning, everything was fine, EVMs were fine and the Election Commission was fine. Now that they have lost, they are saying that manipulation has taken place. Society does not tolerate such people. Said that ‘everything will be implemented for the safety of women. Whatever incidents have happened in Bengal, they should not happen again in future. We will work on this with a zero-tolerance approach.

TMC MP had made these allegations

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee had recently written in a post on ‘X’ that our fight for democracy, constitutional values ​​and people’s rights will continue under the guidance of TMC chief Mamata Banerjee. He had written that we have fought a very difficult election, in which allegedly about 30 lakh real voters were excluded from the voter list. During this entire process, we saw how biased the attitude of many government agencies and the Election Commission of India was.

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Abhishek Banerjee had written that democratic institutions which should work impartially were also seen to be under question. This has raised serious questions on the fairness, credibility and transparency of the electoral process in West Bengal.

‘Absolutely not tolerable’

He had written that democracy can survive only when electoral institutions instill trust and confidence in the minds of the citizens. Unfortunately, what we have seen has badly broken that trust. Along with this there was violence after the elections, attacks on party offices, intimidation of our party workers and threats to our supporters. All these things are extremely worrying and absolutely intolerable in a democratic society.

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026: In Tamil Nadu, the voting which started from 7 am on Thursday (April 23, 2026) for the 234-seat Assembly has been completed. The colors of the election festival in Tamil Nadu were visible on the faces of every voter, be it a man, a woman, an elderly, a disabled person or a youth who is using his franchise for the first time.

Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar has called it a historic election after the completion of the first phase of elections in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. He said, ‘Since independence, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu have shown the highest voting percentage in this election. The Election Commission salutes every voter of Bengal and Tamil Nadu.

Election Commission released Tamil Nadu election figures

He said that this time in Tamil Nadu, 84.69 percent voters have cast their votes, which includes 83.57 percent men, 85.76 percent women and 60.49 percent third gender voters. According to Election Commission data, out of the total 5.73 crore voters in Tamil Nadu, 2.80 crore are male voters, 2.93 crore are female voters and 7,728 are third gender voters.

Voting started late at all polling stations

According to news agency PTI, technical glitches were seen in the electronic voting machines (EVMs) at some polling stations in the state, due to which there was a slight delay in the start of voting. On receiving information about EVM malfunction at the booths, election officials immediately took effective steps so that the voting process could take place without any hindrance. During this time, a large number of voters remained in queues outside the polling booths.

What time was the voting figures in Tamil Nadu?

However, despite problems in some machines, according to Election Commission data in Tamil Nadu, 17.69 percent voting had taken place till 9 am. At the same time, by 11 am this figure had increased to 37.56 percent. By 3 pm, 70 percent voters and by 5 pm 82.24% voters of Tamil Nadu had cast their votes.

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BJP candidate Tamilisai Sundararajan praised EC

During the ongoing voting in Tamil Nadu, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Tamilisai Sundararajan cast her vote from Mylapore constituency. After this, while talking to news agency IANS, the BJP candidate praised the preparations of the Election Commission. He said, ‘The Election Commission has made very good preparations for the elections in the state. He has ensured safe voting. Because of SIR, almost all fake votes have been removed.

How many names were removed during SIR, how many total voters?

The main electoral contest in Tamil Nadu is between the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam i.e. DMK led alliance and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam i.e. AIADMK led NDA alliance. A single phase of voting took place in the state, in which more than 5.73 crore voters will decide the fate of more than 4,000 candidates.

According to the Election Commission, there were some 6.41 crore voters in Tamil Nadu before the SIR process. During SIR, names of 1.02 crore i.e. 15.85 percent voters were removed from the voter list of the state and the number of voters came down to 5.67 crore. However, after the process of verifying voters in SIR was completed, the names of about 6 lakh voters were restored and the total number of voters in Tamil Nadu increased to more than 5.73 crore.

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Special Intensive Revision or SIR is a special intensive revision of the voter list, the purpose of which was to ‘cleanse’ the voter list. But a different picture was seen in West Bengal. Many people who were alive were declared dead, some were removed from the voter list by calling them duplicates and some voters were found lacking in their documents. Overall, lakhs of people will be deprived of voting this time. The first phase of voting will be held in Bengal on 23 April. How many people will not be able to vote in this and for what reasons, you will know in the explainer…

Question 1: How many names were cut from SIR in West Bengal and what is the breakdown?
answer: According to the official data of the Election Commission, after the completion of the SIR process in West Bengal, a total of 90.66 lakh to 91 lakh names were removed from the voter list. Initially there were 7.66 crore voters, now around 6.75-6.77 crore are left, i.e. a decrease of 11.6-12%.

• In the first phase in December 2025, about 58.2 lakh names were removed.
• 5.46 lakh more were removed between the draft and final list in February 2026.
• After the judicial adjudication in April 2026, 27.16 lakh more names were removed. Of these, more than 60 lakh cases were investigated.
• Overall 91 lakh names were deleted. Many names were dead or duplicate, but about 27 lakh people were removed even after submitting their documents.

Question 2: What is the election schedule and what will be the impact of SIR in the first phase?
answer: West Bengal Assembly elections are being held in two phases on a total of 294 seats:

• First Step: 152 assembly seats on 23 April 2026.
• Second step: 142 seats on 29 April 2026.
• Counting of votes: 4 May 2026.

Voters whose names are deleted from SIR in the first phase will not be able to cast their vote, because the Election Commission had finalized and ‘frozen’ the voter list of the first phase seats on 9 April 2026. Meaning now no name can be added or removed. Around 27 lakh voters whose cases were still on appeal were awaiting hearing in the tribunal court, but the tribunals were not able to function fully. However, on April 21, the Election Commission added back 136 names out of the 27 lakh whose appeals were accepted.

As a result, those whose names are not there in the first phase will not be able to vote on April 23. A total of 91 lakh voters are affected across the state, hence thousands of voters in the 152 seats of the first phase will also be affected. The Election Commission has not yet released phase-wise separate figures, but it is clear from the total figures that the impact is huge.

Question 3: Is any particular community more affected?
answer: The basis for removing the name from SIR were small mistakes like spelling of Bengali name, age of parents being less than 16 years and having more than 5 brothers and sisters. ‘Logical Discrepancy’ checked with AI tool. More names were cut in Muslim dominated districts like Murshidabad, North 24 Parganas and Malda. According to the Election Commission, 4.6 lakh names were deleted in Murshidabad and 3.3 lakh in North 24 Parganas, but in the total figures, 63% were Hindu and 34% were Muslim.

There are many elderly voters who have been voting for years, now their names have been deleted. This includes people like 73-year-old Nabijan Mandal, Senarul Haq, who served in the army for 35 years, and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. People were removed from villages even after submitting documents. Many people fear that they have been mistaken for ‘infiltrators’.

Question 4: What are political parties and experts saying?
answer: The debate between the pros and cons on this issue is intense:

• Trinamool Congress Party(TMC): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called it a ‘constitutional crime’ and an ‘attack on democracy’. Meanwhile, Sagarika Ghosh said, ‘The right of one person, one vote was taken away.’
• BJP: No direct comment, but earlier Amit Shah had said that this is necessary for ‘country’s security’ and ‘pure voter list’.
• Former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Qureshi: ‘SIR is unnecessary and an administrative disaster. It took 30 years to achieve 99% accuracy, why the rush to improve it in 3 months?’

So experts described it as ‘killing minority citizenship’. Some said that more cuts in Muslim-dominated areas could affect the election results. The Supreme Court also monitored the process, but did not allow the voters who appealed to vote in the first phase.

After the success of Special Intensive Revision or SIR in Bihar, it was started in many states, including West Bengal. Most of the controversies are being seen here. According to the recent report of Sabar Institute, scissors were used blindly on Muslim voters in Nandigram assembly seat and the names of more than 95% voters were crossed out. Questions are being raised that Muslims are being cleansed through SIR, but what is the truth? Let’s understand in the explainer…

Question 1: What happened in Nandigram? Why are 95% deleted voters Muslims?
answer: Nandigram is the assembly seat of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, where his victory over Mamata Banerjee in 2021 was by a margin of just 2,000 votes. Here a total of 2,826 names were removed from the supplementary list of SIR (first 7 lists). Of these, 2,700 are Muslims, i.e. 95.5%. The Muslim population in Nandigram is only 25-26%, in 2021 there were about 68,000 Muslim voters out of the total 2.57 lakh voters.

Kolkata-based research organization Saber Institute analyzed the ECI data and presented this figure. The organization’s researcher Sabir Ahmed says that this rate of deletion of Muslim voters is worrying. This shows the political agenda in the SIR process, which is to clear Muslim names to benefit one party.

Question 2: Is this pattern only in Nandigram or is the situation the same in entire Bengal?
answer: There is a case of disproportionate deletion in Nandigram, but the data of the entire state is different. According to ECI data, out of the total 90 lakh removed names, 63% (57.47 lakh) are Hindu and 34% (31.1 lakh) are Muslim. According to 2011 census data, the Muslim population in Bengal is 27%, hence their share of Muslims is slightly higher, but the number of Hindus is the highest.

Deletions were more in Muslim-majority districts like Murshidabad, Malda and North 24 Parganas. 4.5 lakh in Murshidabad, 3.2 lakh in North 24 Parganas. Even in seats like Bhawanipur and Ballygunge, there were more Muslims in the survey. Sabar Institute had earlier found more Muslim names in the ‘logical discrepancy’ list in four seats in Kolkata.

Question 3: So are Muslims being targeted?
answer: According to Sabar Institute and media reports, Muslims are more affected in sensitive areas like Nandigram. Poor laborers, migrants and marginal families were affected in many Muslim areas. TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee is calling it an ‘attack on minority voters’ and ‘electoral genocide’.

AJUP’s Dr. Mir Hasnat says that the ratio of Muslims in the investigation was 5:1, but the ECI had told the Supreme Court in December 2025 that the allegations of ‘mass deletion’ are ‘false, exaggerated and political’. The process is completely constitutional. Notice, opportunity to submit documents and investigation by Judicial Officer have been done.

Question 4: So the voters whose names were deleted have no option?
answer: Out of 91 lakh, names of 27 lakh voters have been deleted. These voters can appeal to 19 tribunals, but after the nomination is over, the list for Phase-1 has been frozen. Phase-2 will start from April 29, then some relief may be available. In many families, father and son are in separate lists, that is, names are on one and not on the other. There will be more than 1 lakh tests and 14 thousand deletions in Bhagwangola of Murshidabad. Army pensioner Noorul Islam’s name was lost in Malda’s Jhotkabeel, even though passport and PPO book were proof.

Question 5: What is the politics behind deleting the names of Muslims under the guise of SIR?
answer: TMC is calling this SIR a weapon of BJP. There was a huge uproar against this in the entire state, so much so that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat on a strike and the matter reached the Supreme Court. On the other hand, BJP is calling it the process of removing ‘black votes’, which will strengthen democracy. Congress and other small parties are also standing with TMC in this matter.

The Election Commission says that the objective of SIR was to clean the voter list, but 95.5% Muslim deletion in areas like Nandigram raised questions.

A huge decline has been recorded in the voter list in many Muslim-dominated assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh. On comparing the final voter list of April 10, 2026 with the pre-SIR list of October 27, 2025, it was found that the number of voters in these areas has decreased more than the average. Especially in some areas of Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Moradabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Badaun, Shahjahanpur and Lucknow, this decline has reached 15 to 29 percent.

The maximum decline was 28.88 percent in Lucknow Central, 27.79 percent in Meerut Cantt, 25.95 percent in Bareilly Cantt, 25.80 percent in Arya Nagar Kanpur, 25.10 percent in Bareilly and 24.32 percent in Shahjahanpur. Apart from these, a decrease of 23.19 percent was seen in Meerut South, 21.81 percent in Aligarh, 21.87 percent in Bahraich, 18.73 percent in Moradabad Rural, 18.86 percent in Chandausi, 18.54 percent in Rampur and 18.10 percent in Badaun. Voters also decreased by 18.60 percent in Lucknow West and 15.99 percent in Saharanpur Nagar. A decline of 16.10 percent was recorded in Muzaffarnagar. There was a decrease of 2,27,255 (14.47) voters in Sambhal.

29270 votes have decreased in Swar, 19,146 in Kundarki, 1,22,263 votes in Amroha. In Khalilabad 61,496, Tanda 30,692, Sisamau 50558 votes have decreased. There has been a decrease of 35880 voters in Pilibhit and 106061 voters in Shahjahanpur. There has been a decrease of 29678 voters in Nagina and 27319 voters in Asmoli. With this, Gangoh 46072, Meerut South 118280 voters have decreased. Apart from this, votes have decreased by 22574 in Nauganwa Sadat, 24541 in Kairana, 24181 in Thakurdwara.

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All these seats fall in areas where the Muslim population is much higher than the state average. In Western Uttar Pradesh, Rohilkhand and some other areas, the number of Muslim voters ranges from 30 to 50 percent. Muslim voters have been playing an important role in influencing the election results in many seats in these areas. Overall, the average decline in entire Uttar Pradesh was 13.24 percent, but it appears to be much higher in these Muslim dominated seats.