Itanagar, Sep 23 (PTI) The Arunachal Pradesh Congress on Wednesday sought greater transparency and constituency-wise scrutiny of the final electoral roll published under the SIR.
The party also asserted that the electorate in the state has fallen by over 21 per cent from the pre-revision figure.
Arunachal Pradesh’s final electoral roll was published on Tuesday with 6.96 lakh voters, a reduction of 1.91 lakh from the pre-SIR count.
The final list includes 3,43,709 men, 3,52,315 women and two third-gender electors.
The Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC), in a statement, urged the election authorities to ensure that every deletion has a lawful and verifiable basis, and that no eligible voter is left out due to administrative errors or difficulties in reaching remote areas.
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the northeastern state began on June 5, and the draft list was published on July 21 with 7,18,046 electors. Of these, 6,32,871 were mapped as self or progeny, while 85,175 were unmapped.
The APCC said the “substantial reduction” warranted public access to constituency-wise and category-wise data on additions and deletions, along with broad reasons for exclusions, subject to privacy safeguards.
The party said it would examine the final SIR data and raise any discrepancies it independently verifies before the electoral authorities. PTI UPL RBT
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