External affairs minister S Jaishankar , election commissioner SS Sandhu, former deputy prime minister LK Advani and Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India K Sanjay Murthy are among those who are being issued notices for discrepancies in their enumeration forms in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the Capital. Notice has also been issued to the late economist Bibek Debroy, a review of the lists have been found.
Former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, a voter in the New Delhi assembly constituency, has also been issued a notice, although the reason was not specified in the list. Former Delhi lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung; former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar and his wife Sudesh Dhankhar; former UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar; foreign secretary Vikram Misri; SEBI chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey; principal scientific adviser to the Prime Minister Ajay Kumar Sood; former NITI Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya; former Army chief Upendra Dwivedi; CBI director Praveen Sood; and senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi; former Union minister Subramanian Swamy; BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj are also among the names on the list. In Jangpura assembly constituency’s Nizamuddin East polling station, psychologist and social theorist Ashis Nandy, senior advocates Indira Jaising and Anand Grover, and communications consultant Dilip Cherian were also being issued notices.
His wife Seema has been flagged for “self-name mismatch”, while their son Meer has been flagged for a “parent-name mismatch”.
Jaishankar and his wife Kyoko Somekawa Jaishankar, voters at the Sunehri Bagh polling station, as well as former Delhi minister Kailash Gahlot, now a BJP MLA, his wife Moushumi Mishra and elder daughter Jahnavi Gahlot have also been flagged under the same category. The office of the Delhi chief electoral officer (CEO) late on Friday published the list of electors served notices, nearly three weeks after the draft electoral roll of voters in the city was released on August 31. A senior official from the New Delhi assembly constituency said Debroy was part of a flagged list of electors that, as per election commission instructions, had to be included in the draft roll so that their documents could be collected during the claims and objections process.
As per official data, over 3.16 million voters served notices under two categories: “no mapping” and “logical discrepancies”. In response, New Delhi district election officer said Sandhu’s details have been verified. “The electoral entry pertaining to Dr SS Sandhu, election commissioner of India has already been validated and kept in the list for inclusion in the final electoral roll of AC-38 (Delhi Cantt).”
