Election Commission publishes draft electoral rolls for Bihar following SIR
There were 7.93 crore registered voters in the state before the SIR began in June, according to the EC.
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Patna, 1 Aug
The Election Commission (EC) on Friday published the draft electoral
rolls for Bihar, following the completion of the month-long Special Intensive
Revision (SIR) exercise ahead of the upcoming assembly polls.
No compiled list was made available, but voters can check their names on
the EC's website.
There were 7.93 crore registered voters in the state before the SIR began in June, according to the EC.
It is yet to be known how many voters are in the just-published draft rolls.
Printouts of the rolls will be made available to representatives of
various political parties later in the day, officials said.
The publication of the draft rolls kicked off the process of "claims and objections", which would continue till 1 September.
During this period, voters with complaints of wrongful deletion of names can approach
the authorities concerned, seeking a remedy.
Assembly elections would be due in the state later this year.
In the first stage of SIR, voters were provided with "enumeration
forms", either by booth-level officers (BLO) or booth-level agents (BLA)
nominated by political parties, which they were to return after putting their
signatures and appending documents acceptable as proof of identity.
People also had the option of downloading and submitting these
enumeration forms online.
The process was over by 25 July and, according to the EC, "7.23
crore voters" submitted their enumeration forms, while 35 lakh were found
to have "permanently migrated or gone untraceable".
Another 22 lakh have been reported to be deceased, while 7 lakh people
were registered as voters in more than one electoral roll.
The EC also claimed that enumeration forms were not submitted by 1.2
lakh voters.
The mammoth exercise was carried out by BLOs deputed across 77,895polling centres, assisted by 1.60 lakh BLAs and other volunteers, under the
supervision of 243 EROs (Electors Registration Officers) and 2,976 Assistant
EROs.
The opposition parties criticised the exercise, alleging that it was
undertaken to "help" the ruling NDA in the upcoming polls. Petitions
were also filed against it in the Supreme Court, which said earlier this week
that the SIR should result in "en masse inclusion and not en masse
exclusion".
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