Notices issued to Advani, Jaishankar, Election Commissioner Sandhu for discrepancies in Delhi SIR

Former deputy prime minister LK Advani External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar former vicepresident Jagdeep Dhankhar and Election Commissioner S S Sandhu are among the many prominent figures in the list of voters who have been issued notices for discrepancies in their details furnished under the SIR exercise officials said on SundayAfter the publication of draft rolls of over 97 lakh voters under the SIR 3313 lakh notices were being issued over discrepancies in details furnished by people in their enumeration forms Most notices were issued for voter details not matching with the information in the last SIR in 2002In a statement issued late Sunday evening the office of the electoral registration officer ERO of the New Delhi assembly constituency said Sandhus details have been validated and his name will be included in the final electoral roll after verification of the documents submitted by himThe electoral entry pertaining to S S Sandhu Election Commissioner of India has already been validated and kept in the list for inclusion in the Final Electoral Roll of AC38 Delhi Cantt the ERO saidRajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal who along with his wife was issued notices under the Special Intensive Revision SIR of electoral rolls under the unmapped with last SIR category lashed out at the EC and called the SIR special intensive deletion of votesThe Delhi Chief Electoral Officers CEO office however maintained that systemgenerated notices were being issued to voters with discrepancies to correct their data in ECINET and stressed that there is no existential crisis as is being brought out in social and printThe list of voters issued notices has been uploaded on the website of the Delhi CEOThose who have already been issued notice or who are to be issued one soon include Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri ex Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia former JNU VC M Jagadesh Kumar former Delhi LG Najeeb Jung former NITI Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya SEBI Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey former army chief Upendra Dwevedi and CBI Director Praveen Sood officials saidMost of the prominent voters to whom notices were issued come under the New Delhi Assembly seatThe Delhi CEO Office said the issuance of a notice does not mean that the voters name will be deleted from the electoral rollsAdvani 98 his daughter Pratibha and daughterinlaw Geetika have been issued notices after their names could not be mapped to the 2002 SIR electoral roll while his son Jayant has cleared the mapping exercise All four are voters in the New Delhi Assembly constituencyJaishankar and his wife Kyoko Jaishankar who are voters in the Sunehri Bagh area of the New Delhi assembly constituency have also received notices citing unmapped with last SIRFormer vicepresident Jagdeep Dhankhar and his wife Sudesh whose voter records carry the address of the vice presidents residence have also been served noticesElection Commissioner S S Sandhu was issued a notice over a mismatch in his name while his son Damanbir has been served a notice over a mismatch in his parents name They are voters in the Delhi Cantonment assembly constituencyForeign Secretary Vikram Misri has also been issued a notice citing unmapped with last SIRFormer Delhi deputy chief minister Sisodia his wife Seema and their son Meer have also been issued notices While the poll body has not cited the reason for sending a notice to Sisodia his son Meers notice points to a discrepancy in his parents name according to officialsThe reason cited in his wife Seemas notice is mismatch in her own namePoll officials said no name can be deleted without giving the voter an opportunity to be heard and a proper speaking and appealable orderTherefore there is no existential crisis as is being brought out in social and print media the Delhi CEO Office saidUpon receipt of notices the voters concerned may submit their replies and requisite documents to the ERO or BLOThe name of late economist and former chairman of Prime Ministers Economic Advisory Council Bibek Debroy also appeared in the list of voters being issued notices for discrepanciesDebroy who was a voter in the New Delhi assembly constituency died in November 2024His entry was marked as unmapped with last SIR A senior poll officer said We are aware of his death and now his name will be excluded from the final listA senior Delhi poll officer said the notices were issued based on logical discrepancies in the details furnished by voters in their enumeration formsConfirming that the names of many prominent voters including Advani Jaishankar Dhankar and Sisodia figured in the lists of voters who have been issued notices he said their names would be included in the final electoral rolls after due process of verification of facts and documents furnished by the votersThe process of due verification of facts and documents is underway and validation of entries is being done accordingly he addedMany prominent voters in the city including top government functionaries bureaucrats and politicians have been issued notices under the ongoing SIR exerciseDelhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta AAP national convenor and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and senior advocate and former Union minister Kapil Sibal have also been issued notices over discrepancies in their enumeration forms officials saidGuptas entry was however validated after verification of documents and her name has been parked for inclusion in the final voters list of the Shalimar Bagh constituency to be published on November 4The CEO Office said the notices were being issued as part of the claims and objections phase of the SIR which will conclude on September 30The voters concerned have been asked to submit their replies and supporting documents to the Electoral Registration Officers of their respective Assembly constituencies by October 29