Guwahati: Election Commission has ordered a Special Summary Revision (SSR) of Manipur’s electoral roll to enrol “left-out, young and first-time eligible electors”.The final roll is scheduled to be published on Jan 4, ahead of the assembly elections due early next year. The roll revision will be based on Jan 1, 2027, as the qualifying date.Polling stations are to be rationalised by Nov 2, with a ceiling of 1,200 electors and a maximum distance of 2 km. The draft roll will be published on Nov 12. Claims and objections will be accepted until Dec 11 and disposed of by Dec 28, giving the state about two months to update its rolls before the polls.The EC has also ordered simultaneous SSR exercises in 16 other states and Union territories.The SSR in Manipur comes barely a month after a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) reduced the state’s electorate by 6.3%, deleting 1.32 lakh voters across the 60 assembly constituencies.According to a statement by the Manipur CEO, the state had 20,93,076 electors in the last roll before the draft SIR roll was published. Enumeration forms were printed for all of them, but only 19,34,399 were returned. The remaining 1,58,677 electors, whose enumeration forms were not returned, were left out of the draft roll published on July 5.According to the CEO, the exclusions from the draft roll comprised 72,473 shifted voters, 43,000 deceased voters, 34,740 absent voters, 7,394 duplicate entries and 1,070 entries under other categories.The draft roll had 19,34,399 electors, of whom 18,43,221 were mapped to earlier rolls as “self” or “progeny”. The remaining 91,178 were unmapped. During the claims period, 96,985 claims and objections were processed. In all, 56,871 electors were included and 30,650 were deleted from the draft roll.The final roll, published on Sept 6, had 19,60,620 electors. This represented a net decline of 1,32,456 from the pre-draft roll.The SSR claims period is now the main route back for those dropped. A voter deleted as absent or shifted would have to file Form 6 afresh. Form 8 covers shifting of residence and corrections, while Form 7 covers objections and deletions. The EC’s letter directs chief electoral officers to set up help desks and special camps for migrant, vulnerable and marginalised persons.
