Latest reporting on Special Intensive Revision (topic): 31 stories, most recently on 18 October 2026. Source-linked and updated as new reports are published.
The Krishnanagar MP had used photographs of the Chief Secretary (former CEO), calling him the chief architect of SIR which led to deletions of lakhs of voters
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
More than 3,500 people, according to the Karnataka Bengali Kalyan Samiti, formed by and for West Bengal-based workers in Bengaluru, are “under adjudication for logical discrepancy”
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
The BJP Kollam East district committee will organize a rally and protest meeting in Punalur on Wednesday demanding the resignation of Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan, Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan, and 137 MLAs for protesting against the SIR of voter lists.
State Politics · The Hindu · National ·
They expressed concern about a ‘pattern of repression and wrongful detention’ during demonstrations against the CEC Gyanesh Kumar and the SIR.
Elections · Scroll · Latest ·
The sudden spike in the rate of notice disposal follows the introduction of new options on the ECINET portal and fresh oral directions from Delhi CEO’s office to expedite the process and prevent wrongful deletions
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
Himanta Biswa Sarma cites the demographic shift in four eastern States to drive home his point
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
A leader of AIMIM turned a wedding performance in Hyderabad into a protest against SIR, voicing concerns over voter deletions and notices issued to people whose details were mapped against 2002 records.
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
On September 30, the INDIA bloc finalised a joint action plan over the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) row, including rallies and ‘save democracy marches’
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
The list includes senior leaders such as Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Avinash Pande, Prithviraj Chavan, Nana Patole, K.S. Suresh, Ashok Tanwar and Ajoy Kumar, among others; the observers will work with State units to oversee the campaign across clusters of districts, strengthen booth-level mobilisation…
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
They gathered at Dr. Ambedkar Circle and shouted slogans against the BJP-led Union government for ‘trying to repress all pro-people protests by force’.
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
Telangana Congress requests leaders to report to New Delhi for October 12 rally demanding scrapping SIR and CEC resignation.
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
The Court suggested lakhs of voters seeking inclusion in the West Bengal electoral roll should be heard first, while appeals for exclusion are taken up last
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
As part of the drive, 57,339 pending hearing cases were disposed on October 7 and 8, reducing the number of cases awaiting hearings to 2,85,834 of the total notices generated in the State
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
In a fresh instance, the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) of Goshamahal constituency spoke up against bulk submission of Form-7s and warned the political parties of action if BLOs are pressured into accepting such forms
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
Rahul leads sit-in at Akashvani Bhawan after protest march to ECI headquarters stopped; LoP says PM Modi “stole votes to hijack the country”; Opposition leaders demand CEC’s removal, scrapping of SIR and restoration of deleted voters in rolls
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
“Across the State, BJP workers are withdrawing the objections that they had filed against the inclusion of eligible voters under the Election Commission (EC) of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
The Delhi High Court has disposed of a petition filed by two voters whose names were deleted from the electoral rolls after they could not complete the enumeration process during the Special Intensive...
Elections · LiveLaw · Courts ·
Telangana Pradesh Congress Seva Dal president Middela Jitender claims that SIR exercise undermined citizens’ voting rights and posed a serious threat to the democratic process
Elections · The Hindu · National ·
The Congress march against SIR has laid bare the uneasy relationship between the opposition’s old guard and a younger generation of activists seeking a political role of their own.
Elections · Frontline · Politics ·
The CPI(M) MP on the SIR protests, dissent in India, and why the current movement will be a landmark resistance against the Modi government.
Elections · Frontline · Politics ·
‘We all want regime change, getting regime change is every citizen’s constitutional right,’ says Senior Advocate Prashant Bhushan. Dipke asks Gyanesh ‘so important’ to PM Modi.
Courts & Constitution · ThePrint · Politics ·
Before the 2025-2026 SIR, intensive revision of electoral rolls, in all or some parts of India, was undertaken in 1952-56, 1958-61, 1965-66, 1983-84, 1987-88, 1993, 1995, and 2002-2004.
Elections · ThePrint · Politics ·
The protests have blown the lid off a growing number of grievances: SIR, inflation, farm distress, education inequality, rising health costs.
Elections · Scroll · Latest ·
Supreme Court must rethink its May 2026 judgment upholding the constitutionality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, particularly when the process permits deletion of voters merely for...
Elections · LiveLaw · Courts ·