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The Kerala authorities has urged the Election Commission of India (EC) to widen the deadline for submitting the enumeration forms nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rotation by astatine slightest 2 weeks, observing that astir 25 lakh radical could beryllium excluded nether the contiguous situation.
In a missive to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar up of the work of the draught SIR rolls, Chief Secretary A. Jayathilak has listed retired shortcomings successful the SIR exercise. He has conveyed the State government’s apprehension that a important fig of voters whitethorn not find a spot successful the draught rolls which is scheduled to beryllium published connected Tuesday.
According to the State government, the enumeration forms person not been issued to each of the 2.78 crore voters contiguous successful the electoral rolls aft the Special Summary Revision of 2025. However, predetermination officials person neither published the details of the forms that person not been distributed oregon passed connected the accusation to governmental parties, it said. The authorities has urged the EC to marque disposable accusation regarding the undistributed forms and the booth-wise and constituency-wise details of ‘unmapped’ voters.
Further, galore voters who had exercised their franchise successful the 2021 Assembly polls person been near out, according to the government. This database includes Thiruvalla MLA Mathew T. Thomas and his family, erstwhile MLA Rajaji Mathew Thomas and erstwhile State Police Chief Raman Srivastava and his family, it said.
The Kerala authorities has besides drawn the EC’s attraction to the astonishngly precocious fig of enumeration forms listed arsenic ‘uncollectable.’ The authorities has cited the illustration of Polling Station No. 138 successful Thiruvananthapuram Constituency wherever 704 voters are successful the ‘Absent, Shifted, Dead’ (ASD) list. This concern is unnatural arsenic the full voters successful a presumption is apt to beryllium nether 1200. There is besides a accidental that determination are much specified polling stations, the authorities said, urging the EC to instrumentality a superior look astatine this issue.
The authorities further noted that the EC had closed the updating of the forms connected December 19 contempt the beingness of the aforementioned discrepancies. Furthermore, governmental parties successful the State and the Supreme Court person requested the EC to analyse the anticipation of an hold of the schedule, the authorities said.
An electoral rotation that is escaped of flaws is simply a cardinal request for the behaviour of escaped and just elections, the Kerala authorities said. The deadline for submitting the forms should beryllium extended by astatine slightest 2 weeks truthful that complaints tin beryllium addressed and each eligible voters included successful the rolls, the authorities said.
