No names can be deleted from draft rolls without due process: EC
The EC underlined the due process involved in the exercise amid allegations by opposition parties that crores of eligible persons will lose their voting rights for want of documents due to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in Bihar.
The poll panel said there will be no deletion from Draft Electoral Rolls without a 'speaking order".
A speaking order is a self-explanatory order that details the reasons for reaching a particular conclusion.
According to SIR guidelines, no name can be deleted from the draft list published on August 1 without notice and a speaking order of the Electoral Registration Officers/Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (ERO/AERO), it said.
Any elector aggrieved by any decision of the ERO can appeal to the District Magistrate and the Chief Electoral Officer thereafter.
The final voter list will be published in the state on September 30.
Assembly polls are due in Bihar later this year. PTI NAB RT RT
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