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The draught electoral rotation successful Uttar Pradesh, which volition beryllium published connected December 31, is apt to person the names of astir 12.55 crore voters, with astir 2.89 crore names deleted from the pre-SIR elector list. Those excluded volition person a accidental to contention the deletion starting January 1, the State's main electoral serviceman said connected Sunday (December 28, 2025).
Among the 12,55 crore voters who person made it to the draught list, much than 1 crore are successful the "unmapped" category, meaning notices volition beryllium sent retired to them to furnish self-attested documents from among the database of the 12 mandated by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to beryllium moved into the "mapped" category, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa said.
The astir 52-day Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with 'Shuddh Nirvachak Namavali - Majboot Loktantra' (Clean Electoral Roll - Strong Democracy) arsenic its theme, began successful the State connected November 4 and concluded aft 2 extensions connected December 26 with a pruned draught elector list.
"Starting January 1, the EC volition rotation retired a month-long process during which immoderate of the astir 2.89 crore voters, 2,88,75,000 to beryllium precise, whose names person been deleted for assorted reasons and privation to contention the enactment tin reapply by filling retired Form 6," Mr. Rinwa said. "Form 6 tin besides beryllium utilized by caller voters to apply," He said.
The deletion of 2,88,75,000 names, accounting for astir 18.70% of the full 15,44,00,000 voters who were portion of the pre-SIR electoral roll, was done for a assortment of reasons similar death, alteration of residence oregon being enrolled arsenic voters elsewhere, helium said.
Most of the deletions were reported from large municipality centres, including Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Prayagraj and Kanpur, the serviceman said.
Voter verification
"Untraceable oregon missing voters, who besides fig among the deleted, would request to amusement impervious of (inclusion in) the 2003 SIR database oregon immoderate of the ECI-prescribed documents for getting their names added to the voters' list," helium added.
Between January 1 and 31, Mr. Rinwa said, the ECI volition besides invitation objections to the inclusion of the astir 12.55 crore names successful the draught electoral roll. These objections tin beryllium filed by filling retired Form 7.
If the objection against the inclusion of a sanction successful the draught database is recovered valid, it whitethorn beryllium removed from the list.
Similarly, if a idiosyncratic successful the "unmapped" class fails to furnish applicable documents, similar a commencement certificate oregon residence proof, a transcript of the household register, a passport, oregon a schoolhouse certificate with a birthdate, they whitethorn besides not marque it to the last list.
"More than 91% of the voters to fig successful the draught elector database are mapped. The Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) would commencement sending retired notices to the remaining implicit 1 crore unmapped voters, urging them to furnish applicable documents.
"This process volition proceed good into February 2026," Mr. Rinwa said.
He said little than 8 lakh radical person not returned the forms provided to them done the booth-level officers and frankincense recovered their mode into the database of deleted names.
"We cannot unit them to capable up their forms," helium said.
Political slugfest
Meanwhile, the deletion of names from the elector database has triggered a governmental slugfest successful Uttar Pradesh, the country's astir populous State.
The Opposition parties, peculiarly the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, person flagged concerns implicit the SIR exercise, alleging that it is tailored to suit the ruling BJP.
The BJP has rejected the Opposition transportation arsenic "bogus" and an effort to shield "ghuspaithiyas (intruders)".
