Overview
- Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said Assam will get separate instructions because its citizenship framework under Section 6A and the Supreme Court–monitored NRC process are still unresolved.
- The Special Intensive Revision will begin on November 4 in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
- Under the revised procedures, relatives listed in the 2002–04 rolls can serve as references, documents can be produced only upon notice, deletion lists will be published, and party booth-level agents may file up to 50 forms a day.
- Petitions challenging the exercise are before the Supreme Court, which has not stayed the process, allowing the revision to proceed nationwide.
- Political fault lines have sharpened in West Bengal, with TMC leaders alleging a ‘backdoor NRC’ and BJP denying that claim, as reports cite at least three suicides and accounts of domestic workers leaving the area linked to fear around the exercise.