Overview
- The Election Commission issued the new rule on Friday limiting each elector to 10 Form 7 objections during the claims-and-objections period and five Form 7s per month during continuous updation.
- Officials must now verify objectors' identities, require original signatures, reject incomplete or forged submissions, accept Aadhaar for online verification and consider action under Section 31 for false declarations.
- State offices published large submission totals that show the scale of the exercise: Karnataka reported 110,654 Form 7 applications and Uttar Pradesh accepted about 16.18 lakh Form 6 registration applications during enumeration.
- Investigative claims that ECI software auto‑generated tens of thousands of deletion forms in Uttar Pradesh have been reported but are disputed by officials and remain under review.
- The move follows police complaints and political accusations in several states, draws public and legal scrutiny, and raises practical worries that migrants, informal‑settlement residents and people with weak documents could face wrongful exclusion unless hearings and appeals are accessible.