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Bihar: SIR data helped remove over 5.5 lakh bogus names from ration cards, here is how the government did it

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The Bihar government has deleted over 5.5 lakh ineligible ration cards by linking its Public Distribution System with Special Intensive Revision voting data.
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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.
Government and Policy

West Bengal: 30 lakh beneficiaries under Lakshmir Bhandar scheme found ineligible for new Annapurna Yojana after comprehensive verification, says CM Suvendu Adhikari

OpIndia Staff -
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced that around 30 lakh ineligible beneficiaries will be removed from the state's flagship women's cash scheme.
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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.
Government and Policy

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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TMC continues to blame SIR for its defeat in West Bengal elections, numbers show the party won the seats where deletions and additions under...

OpIndia Staff -
In the wake of the BJP's decisive victory in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, which ended the Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s 15-year rule, the...
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The Wire claimed SIR helped BJP win Bengal, here is why its theory falls apart under scrutiny

Dhruv Mishra -
The Wire confuses correlation with causation, leans on speculative no SIR models, and ignores that TMC won 13 of the 20 Assembly seats that recorded the highest number of voter deletions.
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Lies, fearmongering, and distortions: How foreign media outlets, including NYT, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, pushed falsehoods on the BJP’s Bengal and Assam wins

Shraddha Pandey -
Several foreign media publications covered the BJP’s thumping victory, though not without peddling propaganda about the victorious party’s ‘Hindu nationalist’ ideology, ‘Muslim minority under threat’ bogey and falsehoods about the pre-poll SIR exercise.
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The Lyari of Bengal: As NIA raids Kolkata’s notorious Gulshan Colony, read how the area has been a hotbed of crime, illegal Rohingyas, Bangladeshis...

Rukma Rathore -
Gulshan Colony, with a population of almost 200,000 individuals, reported merely 3,000 registered voters during the SIR drive.
Law

Supreme Court praises historic 92% voter turnout and during 1st phase of West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court praised West Bengal’s historic 92% voter turnout and largely peaceful first phase of polling.
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