Guwahati: There is no Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters in Assam, instead there will be Special Revision of electoral rolls in the state ahead of the 2026 assembly election.
The Election Commission, on November 17 announced Special Revision of electoral rolls in Assam.
As per the Election Commissioner notification January 1, 2026, has been set as the qualifying date for the state to conduct the exercise.
The order stated that registered family members are kept in the same section and at the same place and ensure no family is split, 100 percent removal of multiple entries/dead electors/permanently shifted. BLO will conduct house to house surveys to get details verified/corrected from the electors/ head of the household.
Assam will go to polls for the first time after the delimitation of constituencies in 2023.
The election commission notification stated that the details of doubtful voters will not be included in the statement -I as no verification is required in their case. The last SIR in Assam was done in 1997 by ECI when for the first time, tagged some voters in the state as ‘doubtful’ or ‘D voters. D-Voter is unique to Assam. There are a total of 94,477 D voters in Assam.
Doubtful voter’, is a category of voters in Assam who are disenfranchised for lack of citizenship credentials and barred from contesting elections and casting their votes.
The Election Commission of India on October 27 this year announced SIR of electoral rolls for 12 states and UTs. But Assam was not in the list as the NRC update process under the supervision of the Supreme Court is going on in the state.
Reacting on the issue Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said ,”As NRC has not been notified in Assam due to various legacy issues , the Special Intensive Revision of voters list has been temporarily deferred. We welcome the move by ECI and wish to have a illegal voters free electoral roll”
An official of the Chief Election Officer (CEO) office said that “As NRC is incomplete and will take time to complete, EC has rolled out Special Summary Revision.”
The supplementary NRC list, published on August 31, 2019, had found more than 31.1 million people eligible to be included in the registry while leaving out over 1.9 million people. But many organisations have raised their concern on the authenticity of the NRC and alleged that lakhs of illegal infiltrators have registered their name in the NRC list with forged documents. PIL has been filed in the Supreme court for revision of the NRC.
The Assam government also filed petitions in the Supreme court seeking correction of NRC.
