‘I didn’t know my name was deleted’: Voters in Okhla on the pre-SIR ‘clean-up’

Newslaundry · Sep 24, 2026

Last year, Delhi had around 1.55 crore registered voters. By the time the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise began this year, that number had already fallen to around 1.45 crore.Then came SIR.When the draft electoral roll was published on August 31, more than 47 lakh names had been excluded, leaving around 97 lakh voters on the draft roll. The Election Commission has since issued notices to around 33 lakh people whose names or details require verification.But these numbers obscure another significant part of Delhi’s electoral roll story: more than 10 lakh net deletions took place…