Overview

• The Election Commission instructed all state chief electoral officers to finish preparations by September 30, indicating the rollout could begin as early as October–November.
• States are to use rolls from their last intensive revision as the baseline—Bihar 2003, Delhi 2008, Uttarakhand 2006—with mapping to current electors largely completed.
• The drive features house‑to‑house checks and place‑of‑birth verification aimed at identifying suspected foreign illegal migrants for removal from the rolls.
• Kerala parties including the CPI(M) and Congress urged postponement until after 2025 local body polls and asked for broader IDs such as ration cards, while Delhi’s BJP welcomed the exercise and Congress and AAP alleged it will delete opposition votes.
• Operational steps have begun in states like Telangana, and the Bihar pilot remains under Supreme Court oversight that has mandated safeguards such as accepting Aadhaar and pressed for greater transparency on objections data.