Election Commission makes public names of 65 lakh deleted Bihar electors

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar (centre), election commissioners Sukhbir Sandhu (left) and Vivek Joshi. FILE PIC

The Election Commission (EC) on Monday came out with the names of 65 lakh people who were removed from the draft electoral rolls published as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise, officials said.

The development came after the Supreme Court directed the EC to publish the deleted names by August 19 and file a compliance report by August 22. The EC is publishing the names of ‘ASD' (Absentee, Shifted, and Dead) voters across polling booths, and is likely to do so online as has been directed by the apex court, they said. According to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Bihar, ASD lists have been displayed at polling booths in Rohtas, Begusarai, Arwal, Siwan, Bhojpur and other places.

More than 65 lakh enumeration forms were ‘not included' in the draft electoral rolls prepared as part of the first phase of SIR by the EC in Bihar, bringing down the total number of around 7.9 crore registered voters to 7.24 crore of the deleted voters, the election commission claimed that ‘22,34,501' people, registered in the electoral roll, were found to be dead during the exercise.

Another 36.28 lakh have ‘permanently shifted' out of the state or were ‘not found' at their stated addresses, and another 7.01 lakh have been found enrolled at "more than one place".

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