Final voters’ list out in Assam with 2.43 lakh names deleted from draft roll

The final voters’ list was published in poll-bound Assam on Tuesday with over 2.43 lakh names deleted from the draft roll.  The final electoral roll comprises nearly 1.25 crore men, 1.24 crore women and 343 third-gender voters, said officials.

At the end of claims and objections, the final roll has been published with a total of 2.49 crore voters, a decrease of 0.97 per cent from the draft roll, said a statement issued by the office of the Assam Chief Electoral Officer (CEO).

In the final list, over 2.43 lakh names were deleted from the draft roll, according to the statement.

The draft list, published on December 27 last year, had 2.52 crore enrolled voters.  The Assam assembly elections are due in April-May. A total of 2.05 per cent of names have been deleted from Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s Jalukbari constituency.

In Jalukbari, 2,06,314 electors found their names, a decline of 4,310 voters compared to the 2,10,624 listed in the draft roll published on December 27 last year, according to the press release by Kamrup Metropolitan district authorities.

Eligible voters, whose names were deleted from the electoral rolls during the Special Revision (SR) in Assam on the grounds of having “permanently shifted”, can apply for inclusion of their names, said officials. Such electors will be eligible to apply under a specific provision of the Representation of the People (RP) Act, 1950, they said.

“People who have shifted from their earlier places of residence due to various reasons, including eviction drives, will find their names deleted from their previous polling stations or constituencies. If they could not apply for the shifting of their names before the deletion, they can now apply for inclusion at their new address under this provision,” an official said. Applications can be filed with the final electoral roll at the end of the SR exercise being published, he added.