Roughly one in three voters in Delhi faces the risk of deletion from the electoral list after the first phase of the special intensive revision closed on Monday with official data showing that the assembly constituency of Rohini was set to fare the best and Tughlakabad the worst.
The final figures will be known on Tuesday,” said an election official aware of the matter. “The deadline is till midnight. Some forms are still in the phase of digitisation.
To be sure, the 32.8% deletions likely in Delhi at the draft stage are not very different from deletions in other metro cities at this point in the controversial exercise. Chennai and Kolkata saw 35.6% and 25.1% deletions at the draft stage respectively. Bengaluru (the rural and urban district taken together) is set to record around 37% deletions, according to data from the Karnataka CEO as of August 16. Data from all 70 assembly constituencies showed that 125,470 of Rohini’s 150,398 electors, or 83.43%, had their forms digitised, according to CEO data. Outer North district had the largest proportion of its forms digitised (75.68%) as of 8pm on August 17, according to data shared by the chief electoral officer’s office. Kalkaji, the constituency of former chief minister Atishi, had 181,350 electors, while forms have only been digitised for 103,688 (57.18%). In Shalimar Bagh, the constituency of chief minister Rekha Gupta, forms have been digitised for 69.14% of the 177,429 electors. In the New Delhi seat, held by public works department minister Parvesh Verma, forms have been digitised for 58.24% of 89,683 electors.
