Names of more than 10 lakh voters were identified to be deleted in Assam after a house-to-house verification process as part of the special revision of electoral rolls, the Election Commission stated on Saturday.
Of the total, nearly 4.79 lakh names were to be deleted due to deaths and over 5.23 lakh voters were identified to have shifted from their registered locations.
Assam is set to go to the polls next year.
The Election Commission is not conducting a special intensive revision exercise in Assam, unlike in 12 other states and Union Territories. Instead, on November 17, it had directed the state chief electoral officer to conduct a “special revision” of the electoral rolls, saying that January 1, 2026, would be the qualifying date for Assam to carry out the exercise.
This had come less than a month after Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, on October 27, announced a special intensive revision exercise of the electoral rolls in West Bengal, Kerala, Rajasthan, Goa, Puducherry, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Lakshadweep, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
At the time, Kumar had said that another order would be issued later for Assam as the Citizenship Act had separate provisions for the state.
Assembly polls are also expected to take place in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala and Puducherry in the first half of 2026.
In Assam, the door-to-door verification took place between November 22 and December 20. This process did not involve document verification, unlike the special intensive revision.
On Saturday, the poll panel stated that there are 2,52,02,775 electors in Assam.
The number stands at 2,51,09,754 exclusive “D” voters, or doubtful voters whose cases are pending before Foreigners’ Tribunals. They are not allowed to vote until their citizenship is upheld by a court.
Additionally, 53,619 duplicate entries were identified, stated the poll panel, adding that booth-level officers visited 61,03,103 households to verify voters.
After the draft rolls were published, the period of filing claims and objections began. It will continue till January 22, and the final list will be published on February 10.
In November, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma welcomed the decision to undertake the special revision exercise.
“This will help ensure clean, updated and accurate electoral rolls for all eligible citizens,” the Bharatiya Janata Party leader had said. “Assam will extend full cooperation to the Election Commission to complete the revision in a transparent and time-bound manner.”
Meanwhile, around 3.6 crore electors in 11 states and Union Territories have been deleted so far as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
The draft electoral roll for Uttar Pradesh is scheduled to be published on December 31.
The final electoral rolls for all states and Union Territories where the exercise is underway are to be published on February 14.
In Bihar, where the revision was completed ahead of the Assembly polls in November, at least 47 lakh voters were excluded from the final electoral roll published on September 30.
Concerns had been raised after the announcement in Bihar that the exercise could remove eligible voters from the roll. Several petitioners also moved the Supreme Court against it.
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