Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal were among more than 3.16 million voters, or roughly a third of all electors in the city, served notices for “discrepancies” after the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the national capital, said officials involved in the exercise.
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. To be sure, the two categories account for 3,312,919 electors, though the latest figure released by the election authorities puts the number of notices generated so far at 3,163,930. Form 7 is for objections or deletion, and Form 8 for shifting of residence and corrections in particulars.
Because thousands more notices are still to be generated, officials said this gap is. Flagged voters must now submit their responses and documentation with election authorities to be included in the final roll. Voters served notices must submit their replies and the documents required to the electoral registration officer. “Arvind Kejriwal is a three-time chief minister of Delhi and his family has been living here for years. The process also allows voters to correct their particulars, and citizens and political parties to challenge wrongful inclusions.
Electors on the lists are categorised within two sections: “no mapping” – voters who could not be linked with the electoral roll of the previous revision, in 2002; and “logical discrepancies” – voters whose entries had inconsistencies with the previous roll. If their names are missing from the voter list, the Election Commission must explain how this happened and who is responsible for it,” he said. Election authorities said names of members of the judiciary, public representatives, holders of declared offices and personalities from fields including arts, culture, journalism, sports and public services who had earlier been flagged in the electoral database remain on the draft electoral roll.
