New Delhi: With 298,431 hearings of the 3.16 million voters who received notices during Delhi’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls conducted so far, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday started special camps at polling stations across the Capital to help residents submit their forms and resolve queries.
Form 6 is used to include names in electoral rolls, Form 6A for Indian citizens residing abroad, Form 7 for deletion or objection, and Form 8 for shifting of residence or modification of entries. The CEO office said 298,431 hearings had been conducted so far in cases involving unmapped voters and logical discrepancies, adding that BLOs will also visit the homes of voters who received notices to collect documents and upload them on the ECINet platform for consideration by electoral registration officers. Among those who received notices was the family of B S Vohra, 61, president of the East Delhi RWA joint front. Voters can now submit claims and objections until October 30, while disposal of claims and objections has been extended to November 30. The commission will now publish the final electoral roll on December 4.
At the special camps, polling station booth-level officers (BLOs) are deployed to help voters fill forms, collect documents and address queries related to the revision. The camps come a day after the ECI extended the deadline for filing claims and objections by a month.
He said four of his five family members had received notices. Meanwhile, amid a row over the SIR exercise, chief minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday accused the Opposition of trying to “mislead” people about the functioning of the poll panel. At a press conference, Gupta alleged that the Opposition’s demand for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation was an attempt “to divert public attention”.
Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi recorded written objections at least 14 times over 10 months regarding the commission’s handling of voter rolls and software, according to a report in The Indian Express.
