Prominent Delhi voters issued SIR notices have names reserved for final roll: Officials
Most prominent voters who were issued notices during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Delhi have had their details verified through field visits, and their names have been reserved for inclusion in the final electoral roll, poll officials said on Thursday.
BJP leader L K Advani, former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal were among several prominent people who received notices over discrepancies in their enumeration forms.
Most of these voters were marked as "unmapped with last SIR" in Delhi's 2002 electoral roll. A majority of the prominent voters who received such notices were registered in the New Delhi Assembly constituency.
Over the past few days, teams of election officials, including booth-level officers (BLOs), visited the voters to verify their details using the documents prescribed by the Election Commission (EC), officials said.
Following the verification, their names were reserved for inclusion in Delhi's final electoral roll, which is scheduled to be published on November 4, they said.
As per EC instructions, members of the judiciary, public representatives, holders of declared offices and prominent personalities from fields such as arts, culture, journalism, sports and public service, whose names were flagged in the electoral database, were issued notices after they did not appear in the draft roll published on August 31.
Officials said the notices were issued to collect the necessary documents from such voters during the claims and objections period.
The draft electoral roll contains more than 97 lakh electors, while around 33.13 lakh voters have been identified for notices over discrepancies in their enumeration forms.
A significant number of these cases involve voters whose details could not be matched with the electoral roll prepared during the previous SIR in 2002.
The Delhi chief electoral officer's office has clarified that receiving a notice does not automatically mean that a voter's name will be removed from the electoral roll. It said no name can be deleted without giving the elector an opportunity to be heard and issuing a proper speaking and appealable order. (with inputs from PTI)
