Haryana SIR: Chief Electoral Officer asks parties to appoint BLAs at the earliest

Haryanas Chief Electoral Officer A Sreenivas on Wednesday urged all recognised parties in the state to appoint Booth Level Agents BLAs within the coming week as the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls is set to commence from June 15.For the Special Intensive Revision SIR exercise, 20,629 Booth Level Officers BLOs have been appointed across the state, who will conduct door-to-door verification of voter information from June 15 to July 14, 2026.He said that BLOs and BLAs form an extremely important link in the preparation of pure and accurate electoral rolls.

Haryana's Chief Electoral Officer A Sreenivas on Wednesday urged all recognised parties in the state to appoint Booth Level Agents (BLAs) within the coming week as the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls is set to commence from June 15.

For the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, 20,629 Booth Level Officers (BLOs) have been appointed across the state, who will conduct door-to-door verification of voter information from June 15 to July 14, 2026.

He said that BLOs and BLAs form an extremely important link in the preparation of ''pure and accurate electoral rolls''. So far, only 12,917 BLAs have been appointed by various political parties, he said.

Sreenivas was addressing representatives of political parties during a meeting held here in his office regarding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)-2026, an official statement said.

Those present included Virender Garg from the Bharatiya Janata Party, Randhir Singh Rana from the Congress, Pawan Kaushal from the Bahujan Samaj Party, R S Saathi from the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Venus Malik from the Aam Aadmi Party and Randhir Singh Jhajharia from the Jannayak Janta Party.

Later, he also reviewed the preparations being made for the SIR exercise through video conferencing with Deputy Commissioners-cum-District Election Officers.

He urged the deputy commissioners to coordinate with resident welfare associations in cities such as Gurugram, Faridabad, Panchkula and Sonipat, where a large number of multi-storey residential societies exist and BLOs are often denied entry.

He directed that RWAs should be instructed to allow BLOs and BLAs access to collect information related to the SIR work.

The BLAs are nominated for specific polling station areas by the recognised political parties to assist and work alongside Booth Level Officers, who are appointed by the election authority for the respective polling stations.

The Chief Electoral Officer informed that as on May 12, the total number of electors in Haryana stood at 2,06,63,155.

He informed the representatives of political parties that mapping work related to electoral rolls in the state has been completed up to 64 per cent.

He also stated that Assembly constituency-wise help desks as well as help desks at all district headquarters would be established to assist voters during the Special Intensive Revision exercise.

Sreenivas said that the last SIR exercise in the state was conducted in 2002.

Under the third phase of the SIR campaign, July 1 has been fixed as the qualifying date for Haryana.

Preparatory work, training and printing activities under the campaign will be undertaken from June 5 to June 14, 2026. Three rounds of training for BLOs and other staff have already been completed, and another round of training has also been scheduled.

He said that the rationalisation and reorganisation of polling stations will be completed by July 14, 2026, while the draft electoral rolls will be published on July 21, 2026.

Claims and objections may thereafter be filed from July 21 to August 20, 2026. Disposal of claims and objections will be carried out from July 21 to September 18, 2026. Following completion of the Special Intensive Revision exercise, the final electoral roll will be published on September 22, 2026.

Sreenivas urged citizens to cooperate with election officials and BLOs in this important democratic exercise so that an error-free and transparent electoral roll can be prepared.