Lucknow, Jan. 7 -- Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Uttar Pradesh Navdeep Rinwa responded to Congress leader Gurdeep Singh Sappal regarding the deletion of names from the draft voter list of SIR and assured that only the "initial phase" of SIR has been completed. He asked him to fill out Form 6 and said it did not matter whether his name was on the draft list. According to the CEO, the only thing that would matter in the end was whether the voters' names were on the final voter list.

He also responded to the second point of Sappal's X post, which stated, "...If the name were removed from the old address and added to the new address, there would be no objection. But the problem is that the name has been removed from both places."

In his ...