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The Hindu
5 days ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
15,71,402 voters in Chittoor district as of July 1, says Collector
District Collector and Election Officer Sumit Kumar on Friday said that Chittoor district has 15,71,402 registered voters as of July 1. Addressing a review meeting of representatives from recognised political parties at the Collectorate here, the Collector said that steps were being taken to ensure transparency in electoral rolls, with a focus on removing names of deceased voters and data updation. During the summary revision between April and June 2025, the officials deleted 874 deceased voters from the list, shifted 833 voters, and rectified 542 duplicate entries, with a total of 2,249 corrections. The Collector said that as many as 3,049 new voters had been added to the list through Form-6 and Form-8 applications. The EPIC cards would also be despatched to 10,615 voters soon, for which Booth Level Officers (BLOs) would be imparted with orientation. He assured the political parties that the electoral rolls would be updated every three months, and all valid suggestions from them would be incorporated to ensure accuracy and transparency.
The Hindu
07-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Immediately stop special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, say INDIA bloc leaders
Demanding a halt to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar, INDIA bloc leaders on Monday (July 7, 2025) criticised the Election Commission (EC), and said the poll body was in a confused situation. Addressing a press conference in Patna, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress, Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) and the Left parties said the EC should not create doubts in the minds of common people and end the complex processes to strengthen democracy. The INDIA bloc coordination committee headed by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav asked the EC to stop the SIR immediately in Bihar and continue it after the polls. Mr. Yadav said Bihar Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Vinod Singh Gunjiyal had not yet responded to the doubts and questions raised by the INDIA bloc leaders on July 5, 2025. 'People are being confused by no answers to the questions and every day the Election Commission is issuing new guidelines. Instead of clarifying the contradictory situation, people are being misled,' Mr. Yadav said. 'No clarification issued' The RJD leader asserted, 'No clarification is being made on Aadhaar card, MGNREGS card, ration card as all these documents have been considered valid for the inclusion of new voters in Form-6 by the EC but in the notification issued on June 24, 2025, there is no recognition of these documents and 11 separate documents have been sought, which are not easy to provide for the poor and deprived sections.' Talking about the EC advertisement which was published in all local newspapers of Bihar on Sunday (July 6, 2025), Mr. Yadav said the EC released a full-page advertisement but two different things were said in it. 'The EC says some things in the advertisement but the guidelines say something else. In the advertisement, it was said the enumeration form has to be filled and submitted immediately to the Booth Level Officers [BLOs] and the documents should be given later but after an hour, the EC said the form has to be filled according to the order that has already been issued,' Mr. Yadav said. He said there was a lot of difference between the June 24 order and the advertisement released on July 6, 2025, due to which the confusion was prevailing among the voters. 'Two Facebook posts were issued by the office of the Election Commission. Then after an hour it is told that the documents have to be made available only by July 25, 2025. The Election Commission itself is not clear and is confusing all the voters. The EC should issue any information through press notes and official notification, which has complete transparency instead of putting it on social media,' the RJD leader said. The former Deputy Chief Minister said more than four crore residents of Bihar live outside and the EC should answer how they would bring them. Selection of BLOs The Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Assembly asked on what basis the volunteers helping the BLOs were selected and the list of all the volunteers should be made public. 'On June 28, 2025, the EC talked about appointing one lakh volunteers, on July 3, 2025, it said about four lakh volunteers. What are the criteria for their selection and whether they are government or non-government people, this should also be informed,' Mr. Yadav said. He alleged that the way the EC was working, it seemed that at the last moment, the names of voters would be deleted forcefully. Earlier in the day, Mr. Yadav posted a message on social media account X, saying, 'The game of removing votes of Dalits, Backward, Extremely Backward, and minorities and adding fake votes has begun. Modi-Nitish is determined to crush the Constitution and democracy and to snatch your voting rights through the Election Commission. Seeing the defeat, these people have now become frantic. When the voter's vote itself is eliminated, what democracy and Constitution will remain?' Bihar Congress president Rajesh Kumar raised the issue that the decision to give the sole responsibility to the Election Registration Officers (ERO) was wrong. 'The powers given to the EROs are not appropriate at all. The right of one person to make a decision can reduce impartiality somewhere because anyone can influence them because they are a government person, so they will work under the pressure of the government,' Mr. Kumar said. In the advertisement, the EC said if the voters were unable to provide the required documents, the ERO could take a decision on the basis of local investigation or other documentary evidence. VIP Chief Mukesh Sahani said teachers had been put on revision work which was affecting the studies of students in government schools. CPI (ML) leader Kunal, CPI (M) MLA Awadhesh Kumar and CPI leader Ram Babu were also present during the press conference.
The Hindu
03-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Public can file claims and objections till one month after draft electoral rolls are published in Bihar Special Intensive Revision exercise, says EC
The Election Commission of India (EC) has said that for a month from the publication of the draft electoral rolls following the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists in Bihar, any member of the public can file claims and objections. The draft electoral rolls would be published on August 1. The daily lists of claims and objections will be displayed at the offices of the Electoral Registration Officers (ERO) and published on the Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) website. 'Will provide fair hearing' Weekly updates will also be shared with political parties. Final electoral rolls will be prepared only after disposing of claims and objections and no deletion will be made without due inquiry and providing the person concerned a fair hearing, the poll body said in a statement on Thursday (July 3, 2025). The EC said the same has been conveyed to the representatives of 10 political parties that met the Commission on Wednesday (July 2, 2025). Explaining the timeline of the process, the poll body said that in the first phase, from June 25 to July 3, enumeration forms are being printed and distributed to the approximately 7.9 crore electors in Bihar. EROs are making available partially pre-filled forms, based on existing records as on June 23, 2025. BLOs are delivering the enumeration forms door-to-door to all the 7.9 crore electors whose names are on the electoral rolls as on June 24, which is the date of issue of the SIR order. Following this, in the second phase, the enumeration forms will be filled and submitted before July 25. In the third phase of the exercise, running parallel from June 25 to July 26, the completed enumeration forms will be collected by the BLOs along with the self-attested documents. They can be submitted online as well. In the fourth phase, the draft electoral rolls will be published on August 1. The list will include all electors whose forms have been received by the deadline. Names for which no enumeration form has been submitted before July 25 will not appear in the draft roll. Copies of the draft roll will be provided to recognised political parties free of cost and uploaded on the EC's website. Electors who miss the initial deadline can still apply during the claims and objections period using Form-6 along with a declaration form. In the fifth phase, from August 1 to September 1, any member of the public can file claims and objections for inclusion or raise objections to existing entries in the draft roll. No deletion will be made without due inquiry and providing the person concerned a fair hearing, the EC said. The final electoral roll will be published on September 30.
Hindustan Times
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
False declaration in focus as EC probes Pakistani national's voter ID
New Delhi An inquiry directed by the Election Commission into how a Pakistani national staying in India for 17 years managed to enrol as a voter has zeroed in on the mandatory declaration a person has to make regarding their citizenship while applying for a voter ID card. Also Read: Pakistan PM, President vow 'befitting response' to any aggression Osama, who goes by one name, while being deported after the Centre cancelled almost all categories of Pakistani visa in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack, had claimed in a video recorded by a news agency that he holds an Indian voter ID, Aadhaar card, and ration card. 'We also cast our vote,' Osama said in Hindi. According to officials, Osama has been deported to Pakistan. Watch: Pahalgam impact: Pakistan reaches out to allies, Turkey 'sends weapons' amid tensions with India After the video went viral on social media , the District Election Officer (DEO) of Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, on April 30 ordered the filing of a first information report (FIR) against Osama after finding he enrolled as a voter the Uri Assembly Constituency in violation of the Representation of People's Act, 1950 and Citizenship Act, 1955. The home ministry is also probing how Osama managed to stay in India for so long. 'The person falsified the declaration that he is a citizen of India while submitting Form-6 for voter registration. We have registered an FIR against him, and a detailed inquiry is being conducted,' Baramulla DEO-cum-Deputy Commissioner Ming Sherpa told Hindustan Times. Also Read: CRPF jawan's Pakistani wife gets last-minute relief from deportation, returns to Jammu People familiar with the matter said the Election Commission is likely to discuss the process of verifying details submitted in Form-6. This form, used to apply for inclusion in the electoral roll, requires basic details such as an Aadhaar number, proof of date of birth, and proof of residence. While PAN and Aadhaar cards are accepted as proof of age and address, neither serves as proof of citizenship. Furthermore, at the end of Form-6, applicants must declare that they are Indian citizens, providing their place of birth and current address and sign an undertaking that any falsification is a punishable offence–up to one year of imprisonment, a fine, or both. 'We will issue further directions as more cases come to light,' an EC official said.
