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News Reports

Draft electoral roll for Kerala after SIR: 24 lakh names removed, dead, migrated, and untraceable people dropped

OpIndia Staff - 24 December, 2025

The removed 24,08,503 voters those marked in the Absent, Shifted, Dead (ASD) list. This list has been published alongside the draft electoral roll. In the ASD list, 6,45,548 are listed as ‘untraceable/absent’

News Reports

Donations to Aam Aadmi Party increase 3 times within one year, Prudent Electoral Trust among its top funders: Details

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2025

Over 43% of the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) total revenue, Rs 16.4 crore, came from the Prudent Electoral Trust alone.

West Bengal: Over 58 lakh names removed in SIR draft; 24 lakh voters dead, 19 lakh relocated and 12 lakh missing

Rukma Rathore - 16 December, 2025

The West Bengal assembly elections are set for early next year after the SIR program is completed in the state.

Opinions

Rahul Gandhi’s ‘vote chori’ drama in parliament: Lies, conspiracies, and a script for Western media

Jinit Jain - 9 December, 2025

Rahul Gandhi isn’t speaking to India when he repeats his conspiracy theories on 'vote chori'; he’s scripting headlines for the global lobby desperate to label our democracy “stolen.”

Law

Supreme Court objects to Prashant Bhushan calling the Election Commission a “despot” during hearing of petitions challenging SIR

OpIndia Staff - 3 December, 2025

Bhushan claimed that the exercise was being conducted in a "hurry" which has led to the death of several Booth Level Officers (BLOs).

Crime

West Bengal: TMC goon Mohammed Kasimuddin brutally attacks husband of BLO amid SIR of electoral rolls

OpIndia Staff - 28 November, 2025

The ongoing Special Intensive Revision exercise in West Bengal is facing many hurdles as a result of the ruling TMC's open opposition to the...

Government and Policy

‘Should foreigners with Aadhaar be made voters?’, SC asks petitioner challenging SIR, says EC has right to determine authenticity of documents

OpIndia Staff - 27 November, 2025

The Court that the Aadhaar Card is created to ensure that the benefits of social welfare schemes reach everyone and does not automatically confer voting rights.

UIDAI punctures Saket Gokhale’s ‘Vote Chori’ hoax: West Bengal government’s own death records led to Aadhaar deactivations

OpIndia Staff - 20 November, 2025

Issuing a firm rebuttal to TMC MP Saket Gokhale, UIDAI said the Aadhaar deactivations stemmed directly from death records supplied by the West Bengal state government itself, not from any internal fabrication or political maneuvering.