The Election Commission on Monday ordered a “special revision” of the electoral rolls in Assam. The poll panel, in instructions issued to the state chief electoral officer, stated that January 1, 2026, would be the qualifying date for the state to carry out the exercise.

Assam is set to go to polls next year.

In its instructions, the Election Commission stated that door-to-door verification as part of the revision in Assam will take place between November 22 and December 20. During this period, booth level officers will check for multiple entries, dead voters and permanently shifted electors.

The draft roll will be published on December 27, following which claims and objections can be filed between December 27 and January 22, 2026. The final list will be published on February 10, 2026.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma welcomed the decision taken by the Election Commission to undertake the special revision with January 1, 2026, as the qualifying date.

“This will help ensure clean, updated and accurate electoral rolls for all eligible citizens,” the Bharatiya Janata Party leader said on social media. “Assam will extend full cooperation to the Election Commission to complete the revision in a transparent and time-bound manner.”

This comes less than a month after Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on October 27 announced a special intensive revision exercise of the electoral rolls in 12 states and Union Territories.

At the time, Kumar had said that another order would be issued later for Assam as the Citizenship Act had separate provisions for the state.

The states and Union Territories where the exercise was announced to be held included Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry, where Assembly elections are expected to take place in 2026.

On November 4, the Election Commission began the enumeration phase of the exercise in these 12 states and Union Territories. The draft electoral rolls for the 12 states and Union Territories would be published on December 9. The final electoral rolls are to be published on February 7.

On November 11, the Supreme Court directed the Election Commission to respond within two weeks on petitions filed against the special intensive revision in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. It will hear the matter next on November 26.

In Bihar, where the revision was completed ahead of the Assembly elections, at least 47 lakh voters were excluded from the final electoral roll published on September 30.

Concerns had been raised after the announcement in Bihar that the exercise could remove eligible voters from the roll. Several petitioners also moved the Supreme Court against it.

The Election Commission has repeatedly defended the revision as a clean-up effort to remove names of voters who have died, duplicate entries and undocumented migrants.

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