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New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) released the draft list of Special Intensive Revision of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. As per the commission, before SIR, there were 154,430,920 voters. Now, after the first round, the number of voters have been decreased to 125,555,984.
This means that a total of 28,874,108 (18.7 percent) have been removed from voters list. Of them, the number of deceased voters is 4,623,796 (2.99%). A total of 7,952,190 voters (5.15%) were found to be absent.
It further said that the number of permanently shifted voters stood at 12,977,472 (8.4%), while those already enrolled were 2,547,207 (1.75%). The commission further said that 8 percent of the voters could not be mapped, who will soon be sent notices. The EC added that the final voter list will be out on March 6.
Addressing a press conference, Uttar Pradesh Chief Election Officer Navdeep Rinwa said, “ The number of enumeration forms we received was approximately 12 crore 55 lakh... This means that this many people returned the forms signed, indicating that their names should be included in the draft list. There were 46.23 lakh such deceased voters.”
He added, “ There are 2.17 crore voters who have migrated, those who have shifted from their place of residence, who have left the house where they were residing when they registered their name in the voter list, and have permanently moved, or are missing or absent, or could not be found by the BLOs in the field... There were 25.47 lakh voters whose names were registered in more than one place on the voter list... In total, 2.89 crore names were not included in the draft voter list.”
Pointing out that the final voter list will be out on March 6, he added that the first phase of work has been done with political parties at the district level. “Those whose names are in the draft electoral roll do not need to fill out Form-6. Those whose names are not on the list will have to fill it out. For shifting, a form also needs to be filled out. Form 8 can be used,” Rinwa said.
