Overview
- Akhilesh Yadav alleges a plan to delete nearly one crore voters during the Special Intensive Revision in Uttar Pradesh, targeting PDA and Muslim communities, and says his party will seek judicial intervention.
- He displays filled forms and cites alleged forged bulk submissions, including over 100 applications under a single complainant in Lucknow’s Sarojini Nagar and multiple filings in Jaisinghpur attributed to an illiterate voter, while claiming constituency data circulated on pen drives.
- UP chief electoral officer Navdeep Rinwa says no name can be deleted without notices to both the voter and the applicant and a post-notice inquiry, noting that only constituency electors can file Form-7 and that false declarations are punishable.
- Officials report 49,399 Form-7 applications before the January 6 draft roll and 62,896 afterward, alongside 16.18 lakh pre-draft and 29.89 lakh post-draft Form-6 inclusions, and say 16.9 million SIR notices have been issued in UP with hearings in progress.
- Field reports from Barmer, Rajasthan, describe hundreds of bulk Form-7s filed in the names of BJP booth agents who deny signing them, and in Etawah, SP’s Shivpal Yadav accuses BJP-linked workers of intimidating poll staff and warns of protests after meeting the district magistrate.