Assam: Without the completion of the special summons process of the voter list in Assam, preparations are stuff made to remove increasingly than one million names. The Election Commission said that this process has been completed without a door-to-door investigation. Assembly elections are to be held in the state next year; hence, efforts are stuff made to alimony the voter list clean.
Who all are stuff removed, and why?
According to the data, the 1,056,291 names whose deletion has come to light include:
- 478,992 people who have died
- 523,680 people who have reverted their residence
- 53,619 names were registered twice
All of these have been marked for removal from the list.
Why was this process variegated from other states?
In the rest of the states where there is Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the documents are scrutinized. But in Assam, due to the National Register of Citizens (NRC) not stuff completely updated, this process was washed-up in a variegated way. Here people were given the opportunity to fill out the form to add new names, correct mistakes, and register objections to any name.
During the process, increasingly than 29,000 block-level officers and virtually 2,600 observers visited 61 lakh households wideness the state.
How many total voters are there in the state?
According to the Election Commission, currently there are 2.51 crore voters in Assam. in these
- 1.25 crore men
- 1.26 crore women
- And 379 other category voters are included.
Apart from this, 93,021 D-voters (i.e., those whose citizenship is in doubt) have been kept out of this figure.
What will be the next step?
Now the process of claims and objections will protract till January 22. Without this, the final voter list will be released on February 10. The Commission moreover clarified that four conditions are necessary to wilt a voter: stuff an Indian citizen, meeting the prescribed age limit, having ordinary residence in the concerned area, and not stuff deprived of voting rights under any legal restriction.
