Several prominent names, including Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, veteran BJP leader L K Advani and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, have been served notices over discrepancies in their electoral details during Delhi’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls.
The Delhi poll authorities said her name appeared in the list of discrepancies, following which a notice was issued, and physical verification was carried out. “Following verification of the facts and documents submitted by Gupta, her electoral entry has been validated and parked for inclusion in the final electoral roll of AC-14 (Shalimar Bagh), scheduled to be published on November 4,” the electoral registration officer said. Advani, his daughter Pratibha Advani and daughter-in-law Geetika Advani have been issued notices under the “No Mapping” category.
Gupta’s case, however, has already been cleared. After examining her documents and details, officials validated her electoral entry. This refers to voters whose current electoral details could not be linked with records from the previous revision. Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia is also among the prominent names flagged during the exercise. Officials have stressed that receiving a notice is part of the verification process and does not, by itself, mean that a voter has been excluded from the final electoral roll.
I intend to take it up, perhaps file a case in the Supreme Court,” Swamy said in a post on X. Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh alleged that the revision was resulting in large-scale voter deletions and described it as a “Shah Instigated Removal” of voters, in an apparent reference to Union Home Minister Amit Shah. “A test that the overwhelming majority of citizens cannot pass is just a ‘machine for exclusion’,” Ramesh said.
“It is surprising that Election Commission officials are under pressure to delete my name from the voter list. The wider SIR exercise has also led to a political dispute.
