Tue, 27 Oct, 2026, 08:47 pm
Reported by The Indian Express
For 29-year-old Suresh Kumar Patel, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was something he had paid little attention to. He would scroll past the occasional reel about it on his phone, while conversations about the exercise carried on among his neighbours.
A JCB driver, Patel had little reason to worry: his family had lived in Indira Camp for decades, and he had carefully filled out his enumeration form, that too in front of the booth level officer (BLO). That confidence was shaken this Sunday, when a group of activists knocked on his door to tell him that his name had been deleted from the draft electoral roll.
Over 1 lakh special camps held in Delhi, only 27,510 apply for enrolment as new voters His father’s name had made it to the roll.
His had not. On Tuesday, Suresh was among hundreds of people who gathered at a ‘Jan Sunwai’ in East Delhi’s Trilokpuri, seeking answers over names they said had been wrongly deleted from the draft electoral roll published on August 31. The hearing was organised by Jan Sarokar, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), National Federation of Independent Women (NFIW) and Voter Adhikar Manch.
