UP SIR: Nearly 2.89 crore names deleted from draft voter list

Lucknow, Dec 29: The draft electoral roll in Uttar Pradesh, which will be published on December 31, is likely to have the names of about 12.55 crore voters, with almost 2.89 crore names deleted from the pre-SIR voter list.

Those excluded will have a chance to contest the deletion starting January 1, the state's chief electoral officer said on Sunday. Among the 12,55,56,000 voters who have made it to the draft list, more than 1 crore are in the "unmapped" category, meaning notices will be sent out to them to furnish self-attested documents from among the list of the 12 mandated by the Election Commission (EC) to be moved into the "mapped" category, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa told PTI.

The nearly 52-day Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with 'Shuddh Nirvachak Namavali - Majboot Loktantra' (Clean Electoral Roll - Strong Democracy) as its theme, began in the state on November 4 and concluded after two extensions on December 26 with a pruned draft voter list.