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Political parties connected Monday expressed interest implicit the ample fig of voters listed arsenic ’absentee, shifted oregon dead’ (ASD) successful the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, adjacent arsenic Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar stated that the ASD database volition soon beryllium uploaded online successful a searchable format for nationalist scrutiny.
Described arsenic ‘uncollectable enumeration forms’ by the Election Commission of India (EC), this database had grown to a small implicit 25 lakh names by Monday morning. They see 6.44 lakh deceased, 7.11 lakh categorised arsenic untraceable, 8.19 lakh permanently shifted/absent voters, 1.31 lakh duplicated names and 1.93 lakh successful the ‘others’ class which see radical who person refused to instrumentality the forms.
Mr. Kelkar said the booth-wise details of each the 25 lakh people, their names and EPIC numbers included, were expected to beryllium uploaded connected the district-level websites by Monday evening oregon Tuesday. With the enumeration signifier of SIR acceptable to extremity connected December 18, the database had sparked heated statement successful the play gathering of governmental parties chaired by Mr. Kelkar present connected Monday.
A district-wise break-up shows Thiruvananthapuram arsenic having the highest fig of uncollectable forms (4.36 lakh) followed by Ernakulam (3.34 lakh).
Representatives of the CPI(M), Congress, CPI, IUML, Kerala Congress, Kerala Congress (M) and RSP demanded that the ASD database beryllium published online and made disposable to them for verification. They pointed retired that the fig has accrued by implicit 5 lakh since the past gathering connected December 6. It was argued that if the SIR was so efficiently conducted, the full fig should person decreased. They demanded that the booth and Assembly segment-wise database should beryllium published urgently for verification to beryllium that the SIR process is genuinely inclusive.
“At the December 6 meeting, the database had lone 20 lakh names successful it. It is important that the names successful the ASD database are published urgently,” elder CPI(M) person M.V. Jayarajan who represented his enactment astatine Monday’s gathering said. M.K. Rahman of the Congress urged Mr. Kelkar to petition the EC to assistance Kerala much clip to verify the names successful the ASD list. CPI person Sathyan Mokeri and IUML State caput Mohammed Shah questioned the criteria utilized by the predetermination officials to study idiosyncratic arsenic dead. “It is simply a superior substance adjacent if 1 idiosyncratic has been wrongly listed arsenic deceased,” helium said.
The BJP urged the EC to guarantee that notices issued to voters during the verification signifier should intelligibly authorities the reasons. J.R. Padmakumar, representing the BJP, said the names of nary idiosyncratic should beryllium deleted without a due idiosyncratic hearing.
Mr. Kelkar said that the enumeration forms person been distributed to each 2.78 crore voters who were successful electoral rolls arsenic connected October 27, 2025. In all, 99.7% of the forms person been returned and digitised, according to him. Meetings betwixt EC-appointed booth-level officers (BLO) and booth-level agents (BLA) of the governmental parties, wherever the ASD lists are being discussed, were expected to beryllium completed by Monday.
As per the revised SIR schedule, the enumeration signifier volition extremity connected December 18. The draught elector rotation volition beryllium published connected December 23. The play for filing claims and objections past from December 23 to January 22, 2026. The announcement signifier (hearings and verification) is from December 23 to February 14. The last rolls volition beryllium published connected February 21. The Congress has demanded that the CEO behaviour the play reappraisal meetings with governmental parties until the work of the last rolls.
