NEW DELHI: The Election Commission will on Monday announce the first phase of the pan-India special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, covering 10-15 states/UTs, including poll-bound West Bengal, Tamil Nadu , Kerala, Assam and Puducherry. Sources in the poll body said the initial phase will leave out states like Maharashtra, where local body elections are to be held by Jan 31, 2026, as per Supreme Court directives, as well as the snow-bound states/UTs of J&K, Himachal, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Ladakh. The last intensive revision of electoral rolls in India was undertaken two decades ago. Ahead of the EC presser, Tamil Nadu CM and DMK chief M K Stalin accused BJP of "plotting to remove names from voter list" ahead of state polls, as in Bihar . "It (SIR) deprived nearly

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