{
  "type": "article",
  "title": "84,000 Names Disappear From Voter Rolls as a New 'Others' Category Rattles Election Commission's Revision Drive",
  "summary": "The Election Commission's SIR drive has removed more than 84,000 voters from the rolls of two states and a union territory in its third phase, all listed under a mysterious new 'Others' category that was missing from the first two rounds.",
  "content": "The Election Commission's ongoing voter list clean up drive, called the Special Intensive Revision or SIR, has thrown up a surprising twist in its third round, with more than 84,000 names struck off the electoral rolls of two states and one union territory. What has caught attention is not just the scale of the deletions but the reason listed against every single one of these names: a newly introduced tag called the \"Others\" category, which never featured anywhere in the first two rounds of the SIR exercise.\n\nA category that appeared out of nowhere\nUntil now, the SIR process typically removed names for familiar reasons such as death, a permanent shift of residence or duplicate entries across multiple constituencies. In Phase 3, however, the Election Commission has for the first time used a separate \"Others\" heading to explain why over 84,000 voters were dropped, without offering a specific breakdown of what falls under this label. Since this category was completely absent from the first two phases, its sudden appearance has left officials and political observers searching for an explanation.\n\nPart of a larger pattern of deletions\nThe SIR drive has already triggered large scale deletions elsewhere in the country. According to news reports, close to 3 crore names have been removed from voter lists during the exercise, with places such as Azamgarh, Mainpuri and Raebareli among the areas that recorded significant drops in registered voters. The fresh 84,000 deletions under the \"Others\" tag add to this ongoing churn in the electoral rolls, even as the exact identity of the two states and the union territory involved has not been detailed.\n\nWhat happens next\nThe Election Commission has not yet issued a detailed clarification on what criteria decide who gets placed under the \"Others\" category, or whether affected voters will get a chance to have their names restored. With the SIR process still underway, further updates on this development are expected as questions continue to be raised over the new category.\n\nWhat this means for you\n• For voters: If you live in an area currently under the SIR revision, it is worth checking your name on the electoral roll yourself, since deletions under the new 'Others' category are happening without much public explanation.\n\nQuestions & Answers\n\n1. What is SIR?\nSIR, or Special Intensive Revision, is the Election Commission's ongoing drive to clean up and update voter lists.\n\n2. What is the 'Others' category?\nIt is a newly introduced category under which more than 84,000 voters were removed in Phase 3 of SIR, though no clear breakdown of what it covers has been given.\n\n3. How many voters have been removed?\nMore than 84,000 names have been struck off the voter rolls in two states and one union territory.\n\n4. Why wasn't this category used in the earlier phases?\nThe first two phases cited familiar reasons like death or a change of address for deletions, and made no mention of an 'Others' category.\n\n5. Have such large scale deletions happened before?\nYes, according to news reports, the SIR exercise has already removed close to 3 crore names overall, including significant drops in places like Azamgarh, Mainpuri and Raebareli.\n\n6. Which two states and union territory are affected?\nTheir names have not been made public yet.",
  "url": "https://trendkia.com/en/national/votara-lista-se-84-hajara-nama-gayaba-eka-nai-others-kaitegari-ne-election-commission-ke-abhiyana-men-machai-halachala-8694",
  "category": "India",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-19",
  "tags": [
    "SIR",
    "Voter List",
    "Election Commission",
    "Electoral Rolls",
    "Others Category",
    "Voter Deletion"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "site": "TrendKia"
}