The draft roll contains 97,53,577 electors, a 32.8% decline from the 1,45,10,299 electors on the rolls as of June 30.
Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta and her predecessor, Arvind Kejriwal, are among the 3.31 million electors being issued notices for discrepancies as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), according to election officials. A clarification later stated that Gupta’s name was validated after verification.
Nearly three weeks after publishing the draft electoral roll, the office of the chief electoral officer, Delhi, has published the list of Delhi electors served notices under the exercise, providing details of voters categorised under “No Mapping” and “Logical Discrepancies”. Kejriwal’s wife, Sunita Kejriwal, his parents and his son Pulkit are also being issued notices under the exercise. The draft electoral roll was published on August 31.
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A clarification issued later stated that Gupta’s electoral details were verified after the designated booth-level officer (BLO) conducted a physical verification.
Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) claimed on Saturday that Kejriwal’s name was missing from the electoral roll. The Election Commission later clarified that his name was present on the list and said that notices were issued only because Kejriwal and his family had not mapped themselves to the previous SIR list.
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal is also among the electors who have been served notice for non-mapping of details with the last SIR. Former Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Virendra Sachdeva, his wife and brother have also been served notices for a mismatch in their names.
According to figures shared by election authorities earlier, 13,79,785 electors could not be mapped, while 19,33,134 electors were flagged for logical discrepancies. Their names figure in the draft electoral roll but they have been served notices for a hearing.
The draft roll contains 97,53,577 electors, a 32.8% decline from the 1,45,10,299 electors on the rolls as of June 30.
The number of polling stations in Delhi has increased by nearly 15%, from 13,033 to 14,947, following rationalisation across all 70 assembly constituencies. Election authorities have uploaded the lists for all 14,947 polling stations.
An analysis of the documents for two polling stations by HT — one in New Delhi and another in Shalimar Bagh — shows the range of discrepancies for which electors have been served notices.
At a polling station in Sarojini Nagar, under the New Delhi Assembly constituency, 84 electors have been listed for discrepancies or non-mapping of details with the previous SIR roll.
Of these, 37 electors could not be mapped with the last SIR, the largest category. Another 24 cases involve a mismatch in the parent’s name, while 13 electors have discrepancies in their own names. Seven cases have been flagged for a progeny age gap of less than nine months. One elector has a parent-age difference of more than 50 years, while another has both a parent-name mismatch and a progeny age-gap discrepancy. One entry does not mention a specific reason for the discrepancy.