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SIR fallout: EC orders house-to-house drive to trace voters dropped from rolls<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission<\/a> has directed state poll officials to launch a special drive to immediately enrol \u201cleft-out\u201d and new voters in areas where the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has been completed. The move comes amid allegations by the opposition parties that the electoral roll revision exercise disenfranchised crores of eligible citizens.The instructions were conveyed in an official communication issued on Thursday, following a virtual meeting with state chief electoral officers (CEOs), as cited by PTI.The drive aims to re-enrol eligible voters who were omitted or deleted during the intensive revision, while also registering first-time and \u201cyoung voters\u201d.The Commission stressed that voter registration is an ongoing process and that no eligible citizen should be disenfranchised for not being included during the SIR enumeration.Booth Level Officers (BLOs) have been instructed to cross-check the current electoral rolls with pre-SIR lists to identify electors whose names were included earlier but dropped from the final roll.BLOs will conduct house-to-house verification of all identified missing electors. Each officer will be tasked with covering 20 to 25 electors a week, with the verification drive targeted for completion within a month.BLOs will also collect Form 6 applications on the spot from newly eligible young electors and genuine left-out voters. The lists will subsequently be shared directly with Booth Level Agents (BLAs) of recognised political parties to ensure transparency.The move follows a September 26 meeting of the full Commission, comprising Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi. After the meeting, the poll panel said the declaration attached to Form 6 was meant \u201cspecifically for SIR\u201d and that \u201cfor non-SIR period, the Forms applicable as per Rules (the Registration of Electors Rules 1960) will be used.\u201dThe Election Commission has withdrawn the additional SIR-related declaration attached to Form 6 in states where the electoral roll revision exercise has been completed.<\/p>\n

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