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Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) that accelerated urbanisation and predominant migration were the apt causes of irregularities successful the elector roll.
Mr. Meghwal was responding to Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut, who asked if the authorities had taken cognisance of allegations of large-scale elector rotation irregularities, including duplicate, deleted and fake entries reported successful states similar Karnataka, Maharashtra and Bihar. The MP besides asked astir steps being taken by the Election Commission (EC) to verify, update, and audit electoral rolls to guarantee accuracy and forestall manipulation earlier the upcoming elections.
Details were besides sought astir the verification mechanics to heighten transparency successful the elector database revision process and measures being implemented to guarantee electoral integrity, information information and accountability of officials progressive successful elector rotation absorption and predetermination preparedness.
Additions and deletions
In a written reply, Mr. Meghwal said, that according to the EC, important changes person occurred successful the electoral rotation implicit the past 20 years owed to additions and deletions connected a ample scale.
“Rapid urbanisation and predominant migration to prosecute education, livelihood, and for different reasons, are present a given. Some electors get registration successful 1 spot and past displacement their residence and registry themselves astatine different spot without getting their names deleted from the electoral rotation of the archetypal spot of residence. This has led to an accrued anticipation of repeated entries successful the electoral roll,” the Minister said.
He added that this warranted an intensive verification thrust to verify each idiosyncratic earlier enrolment arsenic an elector. Therefore, the Commission had ordered Special Summary Revision starting from Bihar, which has present been extended to different states.
Mr. Meghwal said governmental parties are being progressive successful the process, and the electoral rotation has been shared astatine the draught work and last work stage.
The EC is besides inviting claims, and objections from the nationalist and a strategy of supervision and checks to support the prime of the rolls is successful place. The guidelines besides mandate the show of claims and objections connected the Electoral Registration Officer’s (ERO) announcement committee and Chief Electoral Officer’s website on with a elaborate docket of property notes and advertisements published during the revision process for nationalist awareness.
“The First Appeal against immoderate determination of the ERO is placed earlier the District Magistrate; and the 2nd entreaty earlier the Chief Electoral Officer,” the Minister said.
