LUCKNOW, Jan. 10 -- Amid concerns over Lucknow emerging as the only district in Uttar Pradesh with an over 30% drop in names when the draft electoral rolls were published under the Special Intensive Revision, twin factors have emerged as the reason for the dip.

According to the minute data accessed by HT, the transferable jobs of government employees and a number of voters preferring their rural or native entity by choosing to have their names retained in their villages are the two most prominent reasons for the decline in numbers.

What is more, in the last 23 years since the last SIR exercise in 2003, names were often added to the voter list but seldom deleted, a situation that appears to have been corrected now.

Take the case of the ...