India, May 8 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday interacted with senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders including party president JP Nadda as part of its outreach to understand the concerns of political parties and address them.

"The BJP leaders discussed a range of issues, including the timely deletion of names of absent, shifted, and dead electors from the electoral roll. It was conveyed to them that this exercise is carried out annually during the summary revision of electoral rolls," said a person aware of the matter.

Apart from Nadda, the BJP general secretary Arun Singh, Union minister Bhupender Yadav, and member secretary Om Pathak attended the meeting.

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) was the first of the na...