The Election Commission has directed booth-level officers (BLOs) in Assam to prepare a list of voters aged over 100 years and households with 10 or more voters as part of the upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Assam is scheduled to hold assembly elections early next year.
A BLO told Economic Times, “We are asked to compile a list of people aged over 100 years or above and a list of houses having 10 or more voters. We are to complete the exercise by August 20. Though the time is very short, we must do it within the timeframe.”
New BLOs, many of them from the teaching community, have undergone training sessions during the summer vacation. A BLO said, “We are asked to work for the revision after school hours. In the training session, there were talks of SIR and BLO forms. In case of new voters, we are made aware of the documents we should seek like birth certificate, photograph, parent’s voters identity card and address proof. For deletion, we were suggested to look for death certificates.”
Assam Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Anurag Goel has asked all district election officers to be ready before the SIR schedule is announced. His directive noted that electoral registration officers, assistant officers, and BLOs must be in place. Additional BLOs for newly created polling stations should be identified in advance. He also instructed that election staff and data entry operators should not be given extra duties during the SIR process, and that Bodoland Territorial Council districts should not divert them for council polls.
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has extended support to the exercise. He said, “In Assam’s char areas (riverine) and some other places even dead people’s names are there in the voters’ list in large numbers. They do not delete it. Even married daughters’ names are there. The voting percentage in these areas is around 100%.”
He added, “Once SIR comes and the voters’ list is linked with Aadhaar, this problem will be solved. Rahul Gandhi opposes SIR; what he wants is not clear. He can go to the Election Commission and seek rectification of the voters’ list linking the voters’ name with Aadhaar. He is not interested in this; he has picked up some names and is busy showing them. If the voters’ list is wrong, how did Congress win Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana assembly polls? If your party wins it is alright. All these days, they were blaming EVM, now that EVM bullets are not firing, they have taken it to SIR.”
Assam last went through intensive revision of electoral rolls in 2005. A similar exercise in 1997 marked the introduction of the ‘D-voter’ category, unique to the state. A ‘doubtful voter’ is one without clear citizenship credentials and cannot contest elections or cast votes. Assam currently has 94,477 D-voters on record.
A BLO told Economic Times, “We are asked to compile a list of people aged over 100 years or above and a list of houses having 10 or more voters. We are to complete the exercise by August 20. Though the time is very short, we must do it within the timeframe.”
New BLOs, many of them from the teaching community, have undergone training sessions during the summer vacation. A BLO said, “We are asked to work for the revision after school hours. In the training session, there were talks of SIR and BLO forms. In case of new voters, we are made aware of the documents we should seek like birth certificate, photograph, parent’s voters identity card and address proof. For deletion, we were suggested to look for death certificates.”
Assam Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Anurag Goel has asked all district election officers to be ready before the SIR schedule is announced. His directive noted that electoral registration officers, assistant officers, and BLOs must be in place. Additional BLOs for newly created polling stations should be identified in advance. He also instructed that election staff and data entry operators should not be given extra duties during the SIR process, and that Bodoland Territorial Council districts should not divert them for council polls.
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has extended support to the exercise. He said, “In Assam’s char areas (riverine) and some other places even dead people’s names are there in the voters’ list in large numbers. They do not delete it. Even married daughters’ names are there. The voting percentage in these areas is around 100%.”
He added, “Once SIR comes and the voters’ list is linked with Aadhaar, this problem will be solved. Rahul Gandhi opposes SIR; what he wants is not clear. He can go to the Election Commission and seek rectification of the voters’ list linking the voters’ name with Aadhaar. He is not interested in this; he has picked up some names and is busy showing them. If the voters’ list is wrong, how did Congress win Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana assembly polls? If your party wins it is alright. All these days, they were blaming EVM, now that EVM bullets are not firing, they have taken it to SIR.”
Assam last went through intensive revision of electoral rolls in 2005. A similar exercise in 1997 marked the introduction of the ‘D-voter’ category, unique to the state. A ‘doubtful voter’ is one without clear citizenship credentials and cannot contest elections or cast votes. Assam currently has 94,477 D-voters on record.
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