Special Intensive Revision

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During 2025–2026 the Election Commission of India ordered a nation-wide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in India, which was meant to be an intensive revision combined with a stylised form of citizenship verification. Electors were asked to prove that either they were listed in the previous intensive revision around 2003 or that they descended from such electors. As of October 2026, the SIR exercise has deleted 130 million (13 crore) names from electoral rolls, with an expected final list of 880 million (88 crore) voters. Given that the adult population of India is estimated at 1.03 billion (103 crore) by the Government of India, the resulting shortfall is of 150 million (15 crore) "missing voters". The exercise has been characterised as a mass disenfranchisement of a large part of the electorate. The poor and the marginalised sections, Muslims and women bore the brunt of this disenfranchisement. Throughout the conduct of SIR, various concerns and criticisms were raised...

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