The Election Commission on Thursday extended the deadline for electors in five states – Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh – and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands to submit enumeration forms in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Thursday was scheduled to be the last day of enumeration of electors in the SIR for 11 states and three UTs, while the state of Kerala had earlier been given an extension till December 18. The draft electoral roll for all states and UTs but Kerala was scheduled to be published on December 16. Kerala’s draft roll will be published on December 23.

In a statement, the EC said it had revised the schedule “based on the requests received from the Chief Electoral Officers of the 6 states

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