The Election Commission of India (ECI) has put under mandatory scrutiny all names added, deleted or amended in the voter list across Uttar Pradesh through Forms 6 (registration), 7 (deletion), and 8 (correction of entries) fed by computer assistants in all 403 assembly constituencies of the state after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process ended on April 10. The decision follows the detection of anomalies in electoral rolls of various assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, particularly in districts like Pilibhit and Azamgarh.
It should be ensured that all call requests received from citizens under the ‘Book a Call With BLO’ service on the ECINET app and the https://voters.eci.gov.in portal should not remain pending for more than 48 hours, he said. The ECI has also banned computer assistants from feeding forms related to the electoral rolls. All forms received physically from voters will be digitised by the booth level officer (BLO) through the BLO App. “It is the responsibility of the commissioners to ensure close supervision of voter list work in the districts within their division. While the district election officers have been tasked with supervising the working of the officers entrusted with preparation of electoral rolls.
Strict action will be taken against officers, if any laxity is found in their working,” he said. Strict action will be taken if complaints are received regarding inconvenience caused to citizens due to BLOs selecting the option of “unavailable” without contacting voters, or due to citizens not responding to their call requests in a timely manner, he said. The CEO reviewed the preparations for the Special Summary Revision (SSR) of voter lists for assembly constituencies in a virtual meeting with all divisional commissioners, district election officers (DEOs), EROs and AEROs on Saturday.
UP’s electoral roll declined from 15.44 crore voters in the list published on October 27, 2025, to 13.39 crore in the final roll published on April 10 following the SIR — a net reduction of around 2.04 crore names.
Though the ECI is yet to give details of the voters registered after the SIR, leaders of Opposition parties — the Samajwadi Party and the Congress —have said that, according to their survey, lakhs of names have been added to the voter list after SIR.
