Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls and the ECI credibility debate
Quick dive
- Section 21(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 authorises the ECI to conduct a special revision of electoral rolls for any constituency or part of it.
- The newspaper explainer reports about 13.3 crore deletions across three SIR phases: 2.7 crore for death, 1.01 crore as duplicates and 9.5 crore in the absent/shifted/other category.
- In Delhi, nearly 20 lakh of 33 lakh electors served notices had been cleared by October 13; the final roll is scheduled for December 4 after the November 30 disposal deadline.
- The Supreme Court clarified that its May 27 Bihar judgment neither approved nor disapproved the later July changes to Form 6 requiring ancestry or earlier-roll linkage in some cases.
- exam_relevance: tests Article 326, RP Act section 21(3), ECI revision powers and Forms 6, 7 and 8; it echoes UPSC Prelims 2017 questions on constitutional bodies/elections and Mains GS-II themes on electoral reforms, while the 13.3-crore classification is a concrete data-based angle.
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