Overview
- The Election Commission on Thursday revised Special Intensive Revision schedules, setting final roll publication on November 30 for Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Haryana and Nagaland and on December 22 for Delhi.
- Delhi’s deadline for filing claims and objections was extended to November 25 with disposal by December 15, and state officials plan a second round of Booth Level Officer re‑verification for about 4.7 million names removed from the August draft.
- Maharashtra’s claims window was reopened to November 13 and its disposal period moved to November 25, while Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Nagaland saw extended notice and disposal dates ahead of the November 30 final lists.
- The Supreme Court has pressed the ECI to consider accepting late representations in Delhi and on Friday refused Kerala’s deadline extension while ordering the ECI to examine details of people who missed enumeration forms, keeping wider legal challenges active.
- The SIR exercise uses notices, house‑to‑house verification and Forms 6/7/8 to include, delete or correct entries; critics say use of ‘logical discrepancy’ and mass deletions has removed large numbers of electors and the revised calendar seeks to balance speedy completion with safeguards to restore eligible voters.