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Telangana: ECI says printing voter enumeration forms in 3 languages would burden exchequer after HC asks it to consider Urdu forms. Read what the...

Divya Bharti -
The Telangana High Court has directed the Election Commission to consider providing electoral revision forms in Urdu in constituencies where over 20% of voters know the language. The ECI opposed a statewide rule, arguing multilingual printing poses heavy administrative and financial burdens.
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Supreme Court upholds ECI’s Special Intensive Revision exercise: A detailed look at what the verdict said on electoral roll purity, citizenship verification and constitutional...

Shriti Sagar -
The Supreme Court clearly ruled that the Election Commission was fully empowered to conduct the Special Intensive Revision.
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‘It breathes life into Constitution’: SC upholds Election Commission’s SIR exercise, says it strengthens free and fair elections

OpIndia Staff -
A bench comprising CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi delivered the judgment while hearing petitions challenging the EC’s notification issued last year for carrying out the SIR process in Bihar.
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ECI launches Phase III of electoral roll revision across 16 states and 3 UTs, 36.73 crore voters to be verified by nearly 4 lakh...

OpIndia Staff -
The Election Commission said more than 3.94 lakh Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will carry out house-to-house verification of nearly 36.73 crore voters during the latest phase of the revision exercise.
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West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election: ECI announces repolling for the 2nd time in Falta constituency after TMC goons intimidate voters and issue threats

OpIndia Staff -
In Falta, TMC goons threatened BJP supporters and prevented several people from voting.
Law

Calcutta High Court stays ECI memo naming 800 people as “Trouble-Makers” for Bengal elections, says it can’t issue such “blanket direction”

OpIndia Staff -
The Calcutta High Court on 22 April, 2026, stayed the operation of an Election Commission of India (ECI) memo that had identified nearly 800...
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Odisha: Chief Electoral Officer orders strict verification after complaints over ‘wrongful deletion’ of 9.8 lakh voter names during pre-SIR exercise

OpIndia Staff -
After these concerns came to light, the CEO’s office received around two lakh Form-7 applications after 2nd April.
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Massive cleanup of voter lists after SIR in 12 States, ECI deletes 5.2 crore ineligible names, UP tops the list with 2.05 crore removals:...

Divya Bharti -
The Election Commission of India has removed 5.18 crore ineligible names from electoral rolls across 12 states and UTs following a Special Intensive Revision.
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Islamists and liberals play victim about ‘Muslim names’ being deleted from electoral rolls: How illegal migration is the highest in Bengal, and how their...

Shriti Sagar -
Initially, the EC deleted 58.25 lakh voters who were found to be deceased, absent, shifted, or had duplicate entries in the draft rolls published last December.
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‘Everyone must break their necks, spines, and arms’: TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee under fire for instigating violence against the BJP, complained filed

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP highlighted how, during the 2021 assembly elections in the state, post-poll violence happened at the behest of TMC leadership.
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