New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- Amid reports of bulk Form 7 applications being filed to seek the deletion of voters' names across states during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, an investigation in Uttarakhand has traced thousands of such objections to BJP workers, with most targeting Muslim voters.

In the Kichha constituency of the Udham Singh Nagar district, 4,390 names that appeared in the draft electoral roll were missing from the final list released on October 3. Of these, around 670 voters had faced Form 7 objections in August, with 509 applications filed by Rajesh Tiwari, a BJP booth-level agent (BLA), according to Newslaundry.

The report points out that most of the 6,884 Form 7 objections accepted in Kichha, 5,359, ...