Overview
- West Bengal opened SIR hearing camps on December 27 at 3,234 centres to process around 32 lakh ‘unmapped’ voters, with over 4,500 micro‑observers overseeing proceedings.
- Identity papers presented in Bengal hearings will face two‑level checks by EROs and then District Magistrates, and Aadhaar is accepted only as one of several documents, not by itself.
- The ECI directed special scrutiny of West Bengal domicile certificates issued after July 2025, with micro‑observers asked to flag irregularities in documents submitted by electors.
- Uttar Pradesh closed the enumeration phase on December 26 and tallied about 2.89 crore deletions due to shifting, deaths, duplicates and untraceables; the draft roll is due December 31 and the final list on February 28, 2026.
- Tamil Nadu is running special voter camps on December 27–28 and January 3–4, has issued notices to nearly 10 lakh electors for clarifications, and is facilitating free residence/nativity certificates after about 97 lakh deletions in the draft rolls.