{"id":9965,"date":"2025-11-04T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/india-starts-voter-list-overhaul-as-critics-warn-millions-could-lose-right-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:54:55","slug":"india-starts-voter-list-overhaul-as-critics-warn-millions-could-lose-right-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/india-starts-voter-list-overhaul-as-critics-warn-millions-could-lose-right-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"India starts voter list overhaul as critics warn millions could lose right to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW DELHI, Nov 4 — India launched a revision of its voter rolls today, expanding a contentious exercise that activists warn could fuel disenfranchisement in the world’s largest democracy.<\/p>\n

The three-month voter registration overhaul — known as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) — kicked off in 12 states and territories, many of which are slated to hold local elections next year.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of election officials and nearly half a million volunteers will go door-to-door to help residents complete voter enumeration forms.<\/p>\n

Officials “will help the elector fill the enumeration form, collect it and submit it,” Election Commission of India chief Gyanesh Kumar told reporters while announcing the exercise.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the ECI conducted a similar revision in the eastern state of Bihar, home to more than 130 million people, ahead of its state elections beginning November 6.<\/p>\n

The process led to the exclusion of around 6.5 million names, which the ECI said was necessary to prevent the inclusion of “foreign illegal immigrants.”<\/p>\n

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Members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have long claimed that undocumented Muslim migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh have fraudulently registered as voters.<\/p>\n

Critics, however, argue that stringent documentation requirements could result in large numbers of Indian citizens being wrongly removed from the rolls.<\/p>\n

Activists have reported cases of living voters declared dead and entire families being struck off draft lists.<\/p>\n

In August, India’s Supreme Court eased some concerns by ruling that the widely used biometric-linked Aadhaar identity card could be accepted as valid documentation for the process.<\/p>\n

The latest SIR drive will cover major states including Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populous state with about 199 million people — as well as West Bengal with 91 million, Tamil Nadu with 72 million, and Kerala with 33 million, according to the 2011 census.<\/p>\n

Several rights groups and opposition parties have filed legal challenges.<\/p>\n

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, whose party filed its opposition in the Supreme Court yesterday, said the exercise was a “mere trick to delete the names of genuine voters.”<\/p>\n

“Voting is the body and soul of democracy, and that right is facing a threat,” he told opposition parties on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The final electoral roll is expected to be released on February 7, 2026. — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NEW DELHI, Nov 4 — India launched a revision of its voter rolls today, expanding a contentious exercise that activists warn could fuel disenfranchisement in the world’s largest democracy. The three-month voter registration overhaul — known as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) — kicked off in 12 states and territories, many of which are slated…<\/p>\n

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