NEW DELHI, Oct 10: The Election Commission is likely to roll out pan-India special intensive revision of voters’ list in phases beginning with a group of states, including those where assembly polls are due next year, officials said.

At the same time, it will not hold the electoral roll cleanup exercise in states where local body elections are taking place or are due, as the grass roots poll machinery is busy with it and may not be able to focus on SIR, they said

Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are due in 2026.

Besides these five states, SIR could be held in a few other states in the first phase.

The voters’ list cleanup exercise has concluded in Bihar where the final list with nearly 7.42 crore names was published on September 30.

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