Indian Politics

95,000 Uttarakhand Voters Marked Ineligible in SIR Draft Roll

Hindustan Times37m
THE BRIEF
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Auto-generated Form 7 applications were issued for approximately 95,000 voters in Uttarakhand who failed logical discrepancy hearings or missed them, the chief electoral officer said on Thursday.

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These applications account for over half of the 173,000 Form 7 filings during the special intensive revision, where the draft roll dropped over 826,000 people from the pre-SIR count.

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The Congress party alleged large-scale irregularities and misuse of Form 7 in several constituencies, while the CEO office maintained that the revision follows proper rules.