The process of conducting a special intensive revision of the voter rolls in Uttar Pradesh has been extended again, the state chief electoral officer said on Tuesday.
The draft voter list will now be published on January 6, while the final list will be published on March 6.
The draft voter list was initially scheduled to be published on December 26. After the Election Commission extended the timeline once, the date was revised to December 31.
Under the new timeline, claims and objections will be invited from January 6 to February 6. The process of issuing notices, hearing claims and objections and deciding on enumeration forms will be conducted from January 6 to February 27.
The enumeration phase of the special intensive revision in 12 states and Union Territories, including Uttar Pradesh, began on November 4.
On December 11, the Election Commission had extended the timeline for the special intensive revision in five other states as well – Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
In these five states and Union Territories, the names of about 95 lakh persons were removed from the draft voter lists, either because they were dead, had shifted from their registered addresses or were registered in more than one place.
Overall, around 3.6 crore electors in the 11 states and Union Territories have been deleted so far in the revision of electoral rolls.
In Bihar, where the revision was completed ahead of the Assembly polls in November, at least 47 lakh voters were excluded from the final electoral roll.
Concerns had been raised after the announcement in Bihar that the exercise could remove eligible voters from the roll. Several petitioners had moved the Supreme Court against it.
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