Nagaland SIR: Over 11% voters removed from draft list
More than 1.5 lakh persons were removed from the provisional electoral roll.
Black News 
The names of more than 1.5 lakh persons were removed from the draft voter list of Nagaland published on Sunday as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, PTI reported.
The state had 11.9 lakh voters in the draft roll as compared to the 13.5 lakh before the exercise began in August, the news agency reported. The names not included in the draft roll account for 11.7% of the state’s electorate.
While 1.2 lakh voters have been marked as permanently shifted or absent, more than 29,940 had died. Over 5,000 names were duplicate entries, the Election Commission said.
The claims and objections by voters against their removal from the draft list can be filed between September 20 and October 20. The appeals will be heard by November 18, before the final electoral roll is published on November 22.
Nagaland is among the 19 states and Union Territories where the voter roll revision is being carried out in the third phase of SIR.
In 2025, the first phase of the exercise was conducted in Bihar. It was extended to 12 states and Union Territories in the second phase in late 2025 and the first half of 2026.
During the third phase, more than six crore names have been deleted from draft lists.
Since the exercise began, concerns have been...
