Over 2.4 mn voters' names couldn't be mapped; Raj CEO says will issue notice
Jaipur/jodhpur, Nov. 29 -- Fate of over 2.4 million voters from Rajasthan's current electoral rolls are now in doldrums as their names could not be mapped with the 2002 lists of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), showed an analysis of the ongoing SIR status report (till Friday) collected from the Election Department.
According to the department, Rajasthan currently has 54.6 million voters all of whom have been given the enumeration forms since the house-to-house survey for the SIR started from November 4.
The Booth Level Officers (BLOs) were also able to collect the forms from 45.9 million voters which were also digitised by uploading to the ECINet website. "Following the digitisation, the department maps a voter with the 2002 SIR list to check whether any of their parents' names already exist in the old list. The ones, who could not be mapped to that list, will be issued a notice once the draft roll is published on December 4. They will have to produce certain documents to prove eligibility as a voter, failing which their names will be removed," said the Chief Electoral Officer of Rajasthan, Naveen Mahajan.
An analysis of the SIR status report as of Friday, at least 43.4 million voters of the 45.9 million whose enumeration forms (EFs) were already digitised could be mapped. This chunk of voters will not have to show documents and will make it directly to the final electoral roll.
However, the department could not find any match of the rest 2,441,673 voters with the 2002 SIR list. "This is an updating data. This figure may also go up by the time we complete the digitisation of the EFs of all our 5.46 crore (54.6 million) voters from the existing electoral rolls," said another senior official from Election Department wishing not to be named.
A further classification of the data also showed that the maximum 195,489 (27.13%) of voters remained unmapped (whose names could not be matched to 2002 list) in Jaipur whose EFs were digitised followed by 147,016 (19.44%) in Jodhpur, 93,896 (22.95%) in Kota, 71,753 (19.56%) in Pali, and 44,587 (19.35%) in Sirohi.
Meanwhile, as of Friday, the maximum voters could be mapped with the 2002 list in Barmer with 95.67% followed by 92.47% in Phalodi, 92.37% in Balotra, 91.99% in Salumber, and 90.10% in Jhalawar.
Rajasthan, with over 52,000 booths, was among the 12 states and union territories where the SIR was started on November 4. The first draft roll will be published on December 4 following which the voters and BLAs of the political parties will be given a month-long period to raise their claims and objections.
The final electoral roll is scheduled to be published on February 7, 2026.
Reacting to the development, Congress spokesperson, Swarnim Chaturvedi, said, "The SIR process is being done in a tremendous rush and therefore there is a lot of errors in the BLOs' works. In many families, people have been migrated from different areas whose names are not being mapped properly. Officials are threatening to remove them. The BLAs deployed by the Congress party are also not being properly informed by the Election Department. The entire SIR process is going in an erroneous way."
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state in-charge Radha Mohan Das Agrawal said on Friday that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process is essential for maintaining the purity, sanctity and transparency of democracy.
Targeting the Congress party, he said, "If SIR was not good for democracy, why was it conducted during Congress rule? No opposition party ever opposed it then. If SIR is being conducted today, raising objections to it is baseless."
He said that the Congress has a double character on the matter of SIR. "On one hand they are raising questions on SIR, and on the other hand they are training their workers for this process and are also participating in it," he said....
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