New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- A nationwide Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, similar on the lines of what was carried out in Bihar, is likely to take place before West Bengal goes to the elections next year.

Informed sources told The Sunday Guardian that with the Bihar assembly elections expected to conclude by November 2025 and West Bengal scheduled for May 2026, the nationwide SIR of electoral rolls is likely to take place between December 2025 and April 2026.

Keeping these timelines in mind, officials say there is a clear four-to-five-month window between the end of the Bihar polls and the start of the West Bengal election cycle, during which this period can be used to conduct the nationwide SIR.

To be sure, the Election Commis...