Special electoral roll updation drive leads to increase in 1.25 lakh voters in Uttarakhand

Prithviraj SinghDehradun, Nov. 14 -- The one month special drive to rectify and update electoral rolls, post SIR, has resulted into increase of more than one lakh voters in the state.

Special drive held owing to a directive issued by the Election Commission of India (ECI) from October 4 to October 31 have increased voters' strength of the state to more than 72 lakh from around 71 lakh post SIR voters' list draft released by the ECI.

Office of the chief electoral officer BVRC Purushottam today confirmed that special drive to evaluate post SIR electoral rolls was conducted after the finak draft was released by the ECI.

"A special drive was conducted across the state from October 4 to 31, in accordance with Election Commission of India's di...