Lucknow, Feb. 7 -- Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer Navdeep Rinwa on Friday sought to dispel doubts raised by political parties about the deletion of a large number of voters' names in Uttar Pradesh through Form-7.

"The doubts hold no ground as the Election Commission of India (ECI) has a set procedure for the deletion of names and it is done after proper hearing," he said at a press conference.

"The district election officers have been directed to follow the rules strictly," he said.

Form 7 is not received by the electoral registration officer in bulk, he added.

"Daily data of Form-7 is released by EC. Before the publication of draft electoral rolls for UP on January 6, as many as 49,399 Form-7 were submitted. From January 6 to ...