'Missing name from 2002 roll not criteria for deletion'
New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- The Delhi chief electoral officer (CEO) on Wednesday clarified that no voter will be "deleted" from the electoral rolls during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) merely because their name does not appear in the electoral roll prepared during the last such exercise in 2002.
The clarification came a day after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Somnath Bharti said he could not find his name in the 2002 electoral roll despite having graduated from IIT Delhi in 1997 and later studying law in the Capital.
Bharti also expressed concern over reports suggesting that 2-3 million names could be deleted during the revision process in the Capital.
Responding to these claims, the CEO's office said in a post on X that a voter's na...
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