India, July 2 -- As booth-level officers begin a door-to-door count of 1.45 crore voters, Delhi inherits an exercise that has already convulsed Bihar and Bengal

From this week, more than 13,000 booth-level officers are fanning out across Delhi's 70 assembly constituencies to verify the capital's voters. This is Delhi's first Special Intensive Revision (SIR) since 2002: every name must now be matched against that decades-old roll, and those who cannot be linked to it - chiefly newer residents and migrants - must produce prescribed documents or trace their parentage back to 2002. The Election Commission, invoking its constitutional mandate under Article 324 and Section 21 of the Representation of the People Act, frames this as simple recor...