The Election Commission on Sunday ordered the reverification of all names added to, deleted from or amended in Uttar Pradesh’s electoral rolls through Forms 6, 7 and 8 by computer assistants in all 403 Assembly constituencies after the special intensive revision ended on April 10, the Hindustan Times reported.
The forms are used to register new voters, delete names and correct entries.
The Election Commission also barred computer assistants from entering forms related to electoral rolls. Forms submitted physically by voters should only be digitised by booth-level officers through the BLO App, the poll panel said.
The order came after the Congress on Wednesday alleged that the names of more than 13,000 voters had been replaced with those of other persons after the final electoral rolls were published in the Pilibhit Sadar Assembly constituency.
A day after the Congress’ allegation, Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said that “irregularities” had been found in 10,470 electoral roll entries in the constituency after the revision.
In the 2022 Assembly polls, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sanjay Gangwar had won the seat by a margin of less than 7,000 votes.
An investigation by the Pilibhit district election officer had found that the computer assistant had entered 13,779 Form 8 applications. Form 8 is used to correct details in an existing electoral roll or shift...