LUCKNOW, Feb. 17 -- Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa on Tuesday termed the opposition's allegations that voters' names were being deleted from the electoral roll through large-scale filing of Form-7 during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) as "baseless".

Replying to questions by media persons on the allegations levelled by Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav regarding Form-7 misuse to delete the names of a large number of voters belonging to a particular community and supporters of opposition parties, the CEO said complaints submitted by the SP were examined on the directions of the Election Commission of India (ECI).

He said the district magistrate (district election officer) of Ballia sought a rep...