The Election Commission (EC) will announce the schedule for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in several states on Monday, officials said Sunday. The announcement will be made at a 4.15 pm press conference by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.

Though the EC’s media invitation did not specify the subject, officials said the briefing would pertain to the SIR schedule. Sources indicated the exercise could begin on November 1 and will likely cover the five states where Assembly elections are due in 2026 — Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu , and West Bengal — along with a few others. States where there are “peculiar circumstances” like ongoing local body polls may be excluded for now, a source s

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