NEW DELHI: : Election Commission on Monday ordered the next leg of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls — apan-India exercise covering a dozen states and Union territories, and 51 crore electors in all. Enumeration for this phase shall start on Nov 4 and the final electoral roll, with Jan 1, 2026 as the qualifying date, be published on Feb 7, 2026. Four of the five states/UT where assembly polls are due in April-May next year — West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry — are among the 12 that will witness SIR over the next three months. Assam, though also poll-bound, is not on that list. Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said Assam cannot be covered by the same SIR norms applicable to other states/UTs as the Citizenship Act has an exclusive provision for As

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