The UP State Election Commission (SEC) has extended the deadline for revision of the electoral rolls by 10 days with giving more time to the voters to file their claims and objections for the coming urban local bodies elections. Earlier the SEC had announced that the final publication of the electoral rolls would be made on May 25. The date has now been extended by 10 days to June 5.
With the change in schedule the voters would get 14 days to file their claims and objections on the electoral rolls which had started on May 16 and will continue till May 29. Earlier this process was scheduled to end on May 19. Similarly the time given for preparation for the final electoral rolls has been enhanced by a day as now it will be done from May 30 to June 4 while earlier it was to be done from May 20 to 24.
The announcement of the revision of the electoral rolls were made on May 5 when the SEC had announced to prepare the electoral rolls for the upcoming urban local bodies polls in 654 municipal bodies. Earlier the rapid revision of the of the present electoral rolls was done from May 5 to 8.
The SEC has said that the poll schedule of the urban local bodies is likely to be announced by the first week of June. During the 2012, four phases local urban bodies polls, there were around 3.5 crore voters and this time it is likely to cross 4 crore mark.