The draft rolls will be published on December 9 and the final one on February 7, 2026.

The exercise will cover Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Goa, Puducherry, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said at a press conference.

Polls are scheduled for Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry next year.

Kumar said a separate order will be issued later for Assam, as the Citizenship Act has separate provisions for the state.

The exercise was conducted in Bihar in recent months ahead of the Assembly elections in the state. At least 47 lakh voters in Bihar were excluded from the final electoral roll published by the Election Commission on September 30 after the revis

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