SIR in Andhra Pradesh extended for third time; final electoral roll on October 16
Claims and objections to be disposed of by October 10; the draft roll published on July 31 listed 3.71 crore voters
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Claims and objections to be disposed of by October 10; the draft roll published on July 31 listed 3.71 crore voters
The Goa Bench of the HC also questioned the Election Commission of India (ECI) on the provisions empowering it to delete names without a hearing, saying it was “very perturbed by this”
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge advocates pre-SIR rolls and ballot voting as part of the INDIA bloc’s push for transparency, accountability, and broader voter inclusion ahead of future polls
Thousands of appeals filed by voters against their exclusion from the State electoral roll were still pending
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh says poll panel’s proposed measures amount to an admission that the electoral roll revision exercise has been a ‘disaster’; fails to address concerns about ECINet, Form 6 changes
While the draft roll had 3,13,87,034 names, following disposal of claims, objections and other eligible applications, 2,90,497 were added and 44,777 were deleted — with net addition of 2,45,720 voters to the roll
SIR was part of this conscious BJP, Modi-Shah strategy to manufacture a majority and to manipulate the electoral roll in a manner that you disenfranchise a large number of people, says Jairam Ramesh
The number of voters challenging the deletion of their names from the electoral roll is significant as approximately 27 lakh voters were excluded on the ground of ‘logical discrepancies’, which would mean that a lion’s share of the 27 lakh voters may be contesting their exclusion
The draft roll removed one in every three Delhi voters as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list
Mizoram final electoral roll includes 39,243 new voters while removing 32,280 names, marking an increase of 6,963 electors from the initial draft roll.