Civil rights groups in Rajasthan have demanded extension of the timeline for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by at least six months and removal of exclusionary conditions in the exercise. A public hearing for the people facing difficulties in the SIR process was organised in Jaipur on Thursday (November 27, 2025).
The testimonies placed before a panel during the public hearing showed that the people were facing difficulties in filling up and submission of SIR forms, the SIR was being used as a tool to evict vulnerable people from their homes, and the Booth Level Officers (BLOs) were cancelling forms for lack of access to the 2002 voters’ lists.
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Former Chief Electoral Officer Sudhir Verma presided over the panel. The panellists included former civil servants Meenakshi Hooja, Alka Kala, and Rajendra Bhanawat, former Rajasthan Administrative Service officer Shaukat Ali, Bharat Jodo Abhiyan’s national secretary Kamayani Swami, and People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)-Rajasthan president Bhanwar Meghwanshi.
About 200 participants from Dungarpur, Udaipur, Banswara, Beawar, Sirohi, Bhilwara, Ajmer, Alwar, Jaipur, Tonk and Rajsamand districts placed their testimonies before the panel. The verbal accounts of people showed that large-scale voter exclusion was taking place during the SIR, which had virtually become an “exercise in disenfranchisement”.
