Overview

• The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision ended with about 68.6 lakh deletions and 21.53 lakh additions, taking the electorate from 7.89 crore on June 24 to 7.42 crore in the final list.
• Analyses of district figures show declines versus June in all 38 districts, with steepest drops in several border and Seemanchal areas, even after gains between the August draft and the final roll.
• Questions persist over additions, with 21.53 lakh names added despite the EC recording roughly 16.93 lakh Form‑6 applications by September 1, a gap flagged publicly as about 4.6 lakh.
• The EC modified its approach after Supreme Court directions, allowing Aadhaar as an additional document and tracing voters to the 2003 rolls, ultimately linking about 77 percent of electors to those records.
• Opposition parties allege mass exclusion and opaque deletions, the BJP and allies defend the exercise as roll cleanup, Congress vows to seek a CBI probe if it forms the government, and officials say further inclusions remain possible up to 10 days before nomination deadlines.