New Delhi, Oct. 26 -- At a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) camp inside a government school in south east Delhi's Noor Nagar, 67-year-old Farzana stood beside a Booth Level Officer, carefully reviewing each page of her documents as she filled out Form 6 to have her name restored to the draft electoral rolls. Speaking to HT, she said hers was the only name missing from the electoral rolls among the eight members of her family.

Farzana is among the 4.76 million people whose names were removed from the draft electoral rolls. She was among hundreds who turned up at SIR special camps on October 25, as the October 30 deadline for filing claims and objections in Delhi approaches.

"All four of my sons, my two daughters and my husband have the s...