Election Commission's Special Intensive Corrections Initiative Sparks Controversy in India

In the second half of 2025, the Election Commission's initiative to conduct special intensive corrections in the electoral rolls in 10 states and 3 union territories of the country after a gap of 23 years created a furore. National politics in the second half of 2025. The opposition raised several complaints about the process of urgent corrections in the electoral rolls in five states, including West Bengal. Many eligible voters in various states were left out of the process. The water was also drained in the Supreme Court. Several cases on SIR are pending in the court. Essentially, the SIR was meant to make the electoral rolls error-free. The commission mentioned 12 documents in the first phase of enrolment and 13 documents in the second phase. The names of those 13 documents will be in the electoral rolls only as a proof. In this process, the process of document verification has already been completed in 10 states and 3 union territories. In the process, the names of millions of people have been left out in the electoral rolls. According to reports, the state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been left out of most of the people.