New Delhi: The house-to-house enumeration of the second phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls will start on Tuesday, amid West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee leading a protest against the voters' list clean up exercise and Tamil Nadu's decision to challenge it in the court.

The 12 states and union territories where the second round of SIR will be conducted are the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

The SIR in these states and union territories, which has around 51 crore voters, will conclude on February 7 next year with the publication of the final electoral roll. The EC had conducted the first phase of SIR in Bihar between June an

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