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The removal of astir 1 lakh voters successful the draught electoral rolls brought retired aft the Special Intensive Revision by the Election Department is wrong acceptable parameters, erstwhile MP and president of the Puducherry Maanila Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (PMMMK) president M. Ramadass.
In a statement, Mr. Ramadass said the draught elector database published by the Election Department of Puducherry aft the archetypal signifier of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) appears by and ample to beryllium “reasonable and acceptable to the voters and governmental parties”.
Granting that the information remains provisional until the last database is prepared, Mr. Ramadass pointed retired that the draught database showed that retired of the 10,21,578 voters successful the aged elector database arsenic of October 27, 2025, 9,18,111 voters person been retained and 1,03,467 voters person been removed which constitutes 10.6 per cent of the full electorate. This percent is not alarming compared to different States, specified arsenic Tamil Nadu (15.2) and Gujarat (14.5) and the Department has ascribed reasons for specified removal.
Of those removed, 20,798 were deceased and 2,024 names were registered successful aggregate places. The percent of these 2 categories is 2.23%. The remaining 80,645 electors (8.37 per cent ) did not reside astatine the specified code oregon had permanently vacated their residence and moved elsewhere This is the effect of a earthy process for which the Department cannot beryllium blamed nor tin we property immoderate motive to it. Perhaps, if specified individuals had been removed successful each play successful the past, determination would person been nary request to region much than 1 lakh radical today, Mr. Ramadass said.
According to Mr. Ramadass, the draught elector information showed a affirmative correlation betwixt urbanisation of the Union Territory of Puducherry and precocious removal of voters. The percent of those removed is the highest successful the Raj Bhavan constituency astatine 18.92%; followed by Kamaraj Nagar (16.58%); Ozhukarai (13.87%); Karaikal North (13.68%); Thattanchavady (13.27 %); and Karaikal South (13.2%).
In municipality areas, 3 factors look to enactment powerfully causing precocious grade of shifting of voters. The occurrence of precocious grade of in-migration and out-migration of voters, question of highly-qualified and educated unemployed younker voters to different parts of India oregon overseas for placement and apathy of municipality voters astir the full electoral process and the resultant indifference to registry arsenic voters.
He commended the Election Department for executing the SIR workout with 1,099 officers successful a transparent mode and associating 9 large governmental parties astatine each stages of revision, roping successful 2,729 polling presumption level agents belonging to these parties, and conducting 4 peculiar camps. The Department had besides registered caller voters, accrued the fig of polling stations from 962 to 1,099 by reducing the fig of voters from 1,500 per booth to 1,200 and completed the onerous task wrong the stipulated clip (37 days), helium added
