Overview
- Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar visited Uttarakhand on May 23–24 to inspect remote polling booths, meet BLOs and chair a high‑level review of preparations for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
- Uttarakhand officials told the Commission that 89 percent of pre‑SIR mapping is complete and printing of enumeration forms and field training are under way.
- Punjab reported over 84 percent of voters successfully pre‑mapped and said voters who are not pre‑mapped can still complete enumeration forms during the door‑to‑door SIR visits.
- Karnataka Congress held a state conclave, launched an awareness drive and ordered training of BLAs/BLOs ahead of the SIR that the Election Commission has scheduled to start in the state on June 20.
- Local bodies warned voters to map their names to the 2002 roll or use parents’/grandparents’ entries or birth proof because failure to verify can lead to deletion from the electoral rolls, a risk underscored by large deletions reported in earlier SIR exercises.