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As portion of the Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls–2026, the Special Roll Observer, Kuldip Narayan, held discussions with District Election Officers and District Collectors of 4 districts to reappraisal the advancement of the revision work.
He chaired a reappraisal gathering with Collectors, S. Kandasamy (Erode), Durga Moorthy (Namakkal), R. Brindha Devi (Salem) and S. Saravanan (Dindigul) along with the Electoral Registration Officers of the 8 Assembly constituencies successful Erode district. This was followed by a consultative gathering with representatives of recognised governmental parties.
During the review, Mr. Narayan examined the comparison of the 2002 electoral rolls with the 2025 rolls, the number of voters anterior to the Special Intensive Revision, and the number included successful the draught electoral rolls released aft the revision. Details relating to persons with disabilities, overseas voters, salient voters and defence work voters, among different categories, were besides reviewed.
He further assessed measures specified arsenic the splitting of polling stations with much than 1,200 voters, instauration and relocation of polling stations, cases of voters not recovered astatine their addresses, and the presumption of meetings held with representatives of recognised nationalist and State governmental parties at the territory and constituency levels. The advancement successful receiving Forms 6, 7 and 8, arsenic good arsenic the linking of Aadhaar and mobile telephone numbers with the electoral rolls, was besides reviewed.
During discussions with governmental enactment representatives, Mr. Narayan stressed that Booth Level Agents–2 (BLA-2) from each recognised governmental parties should beryllium appointed in each polling stations without exception. He instructed BLA-2s to give special attention to objections relating to Absentee, Shifted, Deceased and Duplicate (ASDD) voters and to promptly study immoderate changes. He besides emphasised that Form-6 applications for the inclusion of caller voters should beryllium collected from eligible applicants and submitted without delay.
Emphasising the value of accuracy successful electoral rolls, Mr. Narayan instructed officials to guarantee that all eligible citizens are included, errors are eliminated, and public representations are examined and disposed of successful a transparent and systematic manner.
