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Nearly 50,000 Form-7 Applications Seek Voter Deletions
Election officials are checking the names on voter lists in Telangana.
Almost 93 lakh names have been marked as having possible problems or as belonging to people who may be absent, shifted, dead or duplicated.
Nearly 50,000 Form-7 requests have asked officials to remove names or investigate entries.
Political parties want to see these requests broken down by Assembly constituency.
Officials have so far shared the total number but not the detailed constituency lists.
The Congress is checking the names and applications by visiting homes.
It worries that Form-7 could be misused to remove genuine voters.
People and political parties can continue making claims and objections until September 16.
The Election Commission of India received nearly 50,000 Form-7 applications seeking voter deletions or objections to draft-roll entries.
Nearly 93 lakh voters were flagged for logical discrepancies or placed on the absent, shifted, dead and duplicate list.
Political parties requested constituency-level Form 9, Form 10 and Form 11 details from election officials.
The Congress is independently rechecking the ASDD list and Form-7 applications through door-to-door verification.
Claims and objections remain open until September 16, while booth-level agents can file limited applications under ECI rules.
- Who
- The Election Commission of India, political parties and their booth-level agents, including the Congress, BJP, BRS and AIMIM.
- What
- Nearly 50,000 Form-7 applications have been filed seeking deletion of voter names or raising objections to draft electoral-roll entries.
- Where
- Telangana, with election officials discussing the matter at the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation office.
- When
- During the current claims-and-objections period, which continues until September 16; a party meeting took place earlier this week.
- Why
- Applicants are seeking removal or review of entries with possible discrepancies, while political parties want detailed records to monitor the process.
Concerns About Deletions
Election-Process Position
Use of Form 7
Concerns About Deletions
The Congress says Form-7 could be misused to delete genuine voters and is monitoring applications closely based on deletion experiences in earlier special intensive revision phases in other states.
Election-Process Position
The ECI permits booth-level agents of political parties to file Form-7 claims and objections against names appearing in the draft electoral roll.
Release of Detailed Records
Concerns About Deletions
Political parties are asking officials to provide constituency-level Form 9, Form 10 and Form 11 lists so applications and objections can be scrutinized.
Election-Process Position
Officials shared the overall application total at a recent meeting but had not yet provided Assembly constituency-wise consolidated details.
Key facts
- Form-7 applications
- Nearly 50,000 applications seeking deletions or objections to voter-roll entries.
- Potentially affected voters
- Nearly 93 lakh voters were flagged for logical discrepancies or placed on the ASDD list.
- ASDD meaning
- Absent, shifted, dead and duplicate.
- Claims deadline
- The claims-and-objections period continues until September 16.
- Booth-level agents
- More than 49,000 BLAs are listed across Telangana, including 25,160 registered with the ECI.
- Daily submission limit
- Each BLA may submit up to 50 forms per day, including limits for Forms 6, 7 and 10 under Form 8.
- Party representation
- The Congress has 3,601 BLAs, BJP 3,044, BRS 2,212 and AIMIM 2,519.
Quotes
Party representative
A political party representative who attended the GHMC election meeting
“We have urged the officials to provide Form 9 (consolidated list of new voter applications through Form 6s), Form 10 (consolidated list of Form 7 applications) and Form 11 (consolidated list of those seeking corrections under Form 8), at Assembly constituency level. We hope that the official machinery will expedite this work.”
deccanchronicle.com
“We believe they have a strategy even for Telangana and would misuse the provision of Form-7 (for deletions). We are keeping tabs and building pressure on poll officials to share all the minute details, if someone has submitted Form-7, be it online against a voter.”
deccanchronicle.com
Sources
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