The Election Commission on Saturday pushed back the deadline for filing claims and objections in Delhi under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by one month to October 30, according to a statement issued by the poll body.
The final voter list will now be released on December 4, as per PTI.
The timeline for disposing of notices, claims and objections has also been pushed back by a month, with the new deadline set for November 30.
In Maharashtra, the EC has extended the deadline for filing claims and objections to October 12, following a request from the state’s Chief Electoral Officer. The deadline for disposing of notices, claims and objections has also been extended to November 10.
The claims and objections window had opened on August 31 and was originally due to close on September 30. Under the earlier schedule, disposal of notices and claims and objections was to be completed by October 30, followed by publication of the final electoral roll on November 4.
The revised timeline comes after Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) requested changes to the schedule in a letter dated September 23.
It also follows the ongoing claims and objections process after the publication of the draft electoral rolls, which contain more than 97 lakh voters.
The EC has issued notices to 33.13 lakh electors over “discrepancies” in the information provided through their enumeration forms. A significant number of these cases involve details that could not be matched with the electoral roll prepared during the previous SIR in 2002.
The Delhi electoral authorities had also issued notices to several prominent voters, including former deputy prime minister L K Advani, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Delhi Chief Minister , Election Commissioner S S Sandhu, former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Officials, however, said field verification has confirmed the details of most of these voters, and their names have been retained for inclusion in the final electoral roll.
The Delhi Chief Electoral Officer’s office had earlier clarified that receiving a notice does not automatically mean an elector’s name will be removed from the electoral roll.
Electors served notices can submit their responses along with the required supporting documents to the concerned Electoral Registration Officer or Booth Level Officer (BLO), the office said.
Election officials have also stressed that no elector can be removed from the rolls without following the prescribed procedure, which includes giving the person an opportunity to be heard and issuing a reasoned order that can be challenged through an appeal.
A fresh round of special camps will be organised across Delhi on September 27 to help eligible citizens whose names were missing from the draft electoral roll apply for inclusion under the ongoing SIR.
Data released by the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer showed that 1,21,224 Form 6 applications seeking inclusion in the electoral roll were received between August 31 and September 24.
The camps will be conducted at all polling station locations across the National Capital Territory of Delhi, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer said in a press release on Friday. The exercise comes a week after the first special camp was held on September 20 and will give another opportunity to eligible citizens who were left out of the draft roll.
The Election Commission had announced the Delhi SIR schedule on May 14, 2026, with the stated objective of ensuring that “no eligible citizen is left out while no ineligible person is included in the Electoral Roll.”
