Kerala SIR: notices to be issued a week before the hearing date

Voters called for hearings nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rotation volition get a week’s clip to beryllium ready, predetermination officials said present connected Saturday.

Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U. Kelkar said the stipulation is that a minimum of 1 week’s clip should beryllium given.

Voters tin usage this play to cod the indispensable documents and beryllium ready, helium said.

Notice volition beryllium served connected voters successful the draught rotation who could not beryllium mapped with the 2002 SIR list. This database has 19.32 lakh voters successful all. But predetermination officials are trying to bounds the fig of hearings.

At his play gathering with governmental parties present connected Saturday, Mr. Kelkar said the determination connected whether hearings are really needed – including successful cases related to the unmapped voters and cases of inconsistencies successful the entries successful draught – are taken by the Electoral Registration Officers (ERO) and Assistant EROs (AERO), Mr. Kelkar said.

Parties vie for online hearings

Political parties including the CPI(M) and the Congress urged the CEO to let online hearings for the voters and nominees for the aged and bedridden patients.

On the entries successful the Absent/Shifted/Dead (ASD) list, Mr. Kelkar said if immoderate of these individuals are traced, they tin beryllium added to the rolls by applying afresh done Form 6 accompanied by a declaration.

Mr. Kelkar said that lone “100% ineligible voters” volition beryllium deleted from the rolls.

The play for filing claims and objections lasts till January 22, 2026. The announcement signifier (hearings and verification) is till February 14. The last rolls volition beryllium published connected February 21.

ASD elector

At the meeting, M.K. Rahman of the Congress said a elector successful the No: 67 polling presumption successful Thiruvananthapuram, named Ayyappan, who has been listed arsenic ‘Dead’ successful the ’absent, shifted oregon dead’ (ASD) database is really alive. The CEO said helium volition look into the matter.

Mr. Kelkar said that NORKA has agreed to organise a gathering of organisations representing overseas electors from the State connected January 9. At the play SIR meetings, governmental parties had repeatedly demanded that specified a gathering beryllium held.

Meanwhile, a fewer governmental parties besides objected to inclusion of the caste certificate among the ‘List of 12 documents allowed’ during the proceeding phase.