Parties involve themselves in SIR
Chennai: All political parties keep a close watch on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that started all over the State on Tuesday with 77,000 personnel starting the process by distributing forms door to door to enumerate the voters as the parties want to ensure that their voter were not deleted from the list that would form the basis for the 2026 Assembly elections.
Despite the widespread vocal opposition to SIR, which was a bugbear in Bihar ahead of the ongoing poll process in that State, when it was announced in the State, the process kicked started on Tuesday with the political parties urging their workers and volunteers at the booth levels to watch over it and protect their own vote banks.
The ruling DMK has instructed his workers at the booth level to draw the attention of their leaders if they found any discrepancies arising in the revision of rolls, while parties like the BJP and AIADMK have assigned their workers to keep a watch on the work being done by government employees, teachers and other engaged by the Election Commission of India.
The ECI has announced that the visit of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) to the houses of the voters would be intimated in advance by the Electoral Registration Officers. The BLOs would distribute the forms and help voters fill them up.
The electors will have to fill the names of their parents and also grandparents and the BLOs will help them do it, an intimation from ECI said, adding that those who could not register their names ahead of the publication of the draft electoral roll on December 9 would to file Form 6 along with prescribed declaration form for inclusion from December 9 to January 8, 2026, for inclusion of names or any other change in records.
The final electoral roll will be released on February 7, 2026, the ECI has announced. So the political parties had urged his grassroots workers to follow up on the process and assist voters, finding it difficult to deal with the procedures of the ECI.
A press release from the ECI said that Deputy Election Commission Bhanu Prakash Yeturu and director Krishna Kumar Tiwari visited the State to review the progress of the SIR, especially the commencement of distribution of enumeration forms across the State on Tuesday. The deputy election commissioner will also undertake field visits to the districts.
