Overview
- With Uttar Pradesh’s draft roll published on January 6, totals from all 12 participating states and UTs fell from 50.97 crore to 44.40 crore, a reduction of about 13 percent.
- In Uttar Pradesh, the electorate dropped 18.7 percent to 12.55 crore, with deletions attributed to voters marked shifted/absent (2.17 crore), deceased (46.23 lakh) and duplicate registrations (25.5 lakh).
- UP officials said notices will go to unmapped electors whose linkage to the 2003 roll could not be confirmed, with the figure stated as 1.4 crore by the CEO and reported as 1.04 crore in some accounts.
- Claims and objections run from January 6 to February 6, hearings are scheduled through February 27, and the final UP roll is slated for publication on March 6.
- In West Bengal, the EC will begin summoning 91.46 lakh ‘logical discrepancy’ cases flagged through progeny mapping this week, following earlier hearings for about 32 lakh unmapped voters.