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New Delhi: A year after the Election Commission of India highlighted the removal of “foreign illegal immigrants” as one of the objectives of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls and following several speeches by government representatives and leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party endorsing the contentious SIR for this very reason, a report by the Hindustan Times‘ Himanshi Dahiya notes that in six states where the electorate comes to around 9.86 crore, only 1,600 names were identified as foreigners.

The BJP has been keen to establish the SIR as part of its “detect, delete, and deport” policy. Exactly a year ago, in 2025, Union home minister Amit Shah had said that only those who were “infiltrators” had been removed in the Bihar........

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