Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal are among more than 3.16 million voters in the capital who have received notices regarding discrepancies in their electoral registration. This follows a special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls conducted by officials in the city, which has identified issues affecting roughly one-third of all registered electors.
Judiciary and Public Figures Remain on Draft Electoral Roll
Election authorities have confirmed that the names of judiciary members, public representatives, and individuals from various fields—including arts, culture, journalism, sports, and public services—who were previously flagged in the electoral database are still included in the draft electoral roll.
Election Commission’s May 14 instructions
The Shalimar Bagh ERO on Saturday said Gupta’s entry had since been verified. Delhi chief electoral officer Ashok Kumar said at a press conference on Saturday: “During the enumeration phase, SIR dates were revised since there was pendency. Poll body clarifies amid row Aam Aadmi Party national convenor and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was among those who were issued notices for discrepancies as part of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercise in Delhi, election officials said on Saturday.
Flagged voters must now submit their responses and documentation with election authorities to be included in the final roll. Voters served notices must submit their replies and the documents required to the electoral registration officer. The discrepancy concerned the age difference between her and her parents. A notice was issued to her and the designated booth level officer (BLO) carried out a physical field verification. The family is registered in New Delhi constituency. AAP spokesperson Anurag Dhanda criticised the notices issued to the party chief and his family. “Arvind Kejriwal is a three-time chief minister of Delhi and his family has been living here for years. The BJP lashed back at the former chief minister. “Kejriwal spent the last few months instigating students against the centre government. Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal and Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Bansuri Swaraj is among those served notices in the non-mapping section. Former Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva, his wife and brother have received notices over discrepancies in their names. The process also allows voters to correct their particulars, and citizens and political parties to challenge wrongful inclusions. We will review the status next week and take a decision on whether dates need to be extended.
Because thousands more notices are still to be generated, officials said this gap is. Because their details could not be mapped with the last SIR, authorities also issued notices to Kejriwal, his wife Sunita Kejriwal, his parents Gobind Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi, and his son Pulkit Kejriwal,. The move follows the Election Commission’s May 14 instructions that such names be included in the draft roll so that the necessary documents could be collected during the claims and objections period. Because their details could not be mapped with the last SIR, leading to their names being added among voters categorised under ‘No Mapping’, the office of the electoral registration officer (ERO), New Delhi constituency, said in a statement, earlier reporting noted: Kejriwal and his family have been issued notices.
The office of the Delhi chief electoral officer (CEO) late on Friday published the list of electors served notices, nearly three weeks after the draft electoral roll of voters in the city was released on August 31. To be sure, the two categories account for 3,312,919 electors, though the latest figure released by the election authorities puts the number of notices generated so far at 3,163,930. The election commission must decide on all notices by October 29, and the Capital’s final electoral roll is scheduled to be published on November 4. The draft rolls for the national capital published on August 31 shaved off a third of voters, listing 9.75 million names, a drop from 14.5 million as of the June 30 roll. Among the six metro cities – Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad – Delhi’s 32.8% deletions at the draft stage are the second lowest. The segment’s ERO in a statement said Kejriwal and his family will be validated and included in the November 4 roll pursuant to the “due verification of facts and documents to be provided by the electors. The number of polling stations in Delhi has increased from 13,033 to 14,947 following rationalisation across all 70 assembly constituencies, and election authorities have uploaded the lists for all 14,947 polling stations. The revision was carried out by 13,033 BLOs across 13,033 polling stations. Electors who could not submit their enumeration forms during the June 30–August 17 window can seek inclusion during the claims and objections period, which opened on August 31 and runs until September 30. They can file Form 6 along with the prescribed declaration. Form 7 is for objections or deletion, and Form 8 for shifting of residence and corrections in particulars. Earlier reporting noted: At least 3.31 million electors were issued notices, which also included Delhi CM Rekha Gupta.
Electors on the lists are categorised within two sections: “no mapping” – voters who could not be linked with the electoral roll of the previous revision, in 2002; and “logical discrepancies” – voters whose entries had inconsistencies with the previous roll. Of the 9,753,577 million electors whose names were published in Delhi’s draft electoral rolls after the SIR, 1,379,785 have now been placed in the “no mapping” category and 1,933,134 were tagged as bearing “logical discrepancies”. Gupta, an elector in Shalimar Bagh assembly constituency, was flagged under the “logical discrepancies” category on the basis of details in her enumeration form. After the facts and documents she provided were verified, the entry was validated and “parked for inclusion” in the final electoral roll, the ERO said in a statement. If their names are missing from the voter list, the Election Commission must explain how this happened and who is responsible for it,” he said. Had he spent some time in filling the SIR form correctly, he wouldn’t have to go through the process of submission of his documents,” said a BJP spokesperson. However, a clarification issued later said Gupta’s electoral details were verified after she was served the notice.
Earlier reporting noted: Why was AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal issued SIR notice?
