The Election Commission will soon upload the electoral roll of 2003 Bihar on its website to facilitate around 4.96 crore voters, whose names remove the figure on this part to engage with calculation forms for special intensive amendment of the list of voters.
As the opposition parties questioned the amendment practice, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanash Kumar said PTI Its purpose on Sunday is to ensure that no eligible citizen has come out of the electoral roll and no unqualified person is a part of it.
Many opposition parties have said that intensive amendment leads to the risk of merciless exclusion of voters using state machinery.
A senior worker said that any person opposing the practice is also opposing Article 326 and hence he should clarify his stand.
Article 326 states that all eligible citizens should be included in the electoral rolls, and whether the characters of India or not, they cannot be part of the list of voters.
EC officials said that during the ongoing head in Bihar, the Pol Authority advised political parties to appoint their workers as booth level agents in all polling stations, rather than finding defects with electoral rolls.
On Saturday, the Commission said that all recognized national and state political parties have already appointed 1,54,977 Blass. They can still appoint more, it has been reported.
Blas party workers are those who coordinate with booth level officials (BLOS) during preparation or amendment for the list of voters.
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According to the instructions issued by the Poll Authority to its Bihar Pol Machinary, 4.96 crore voters – 60 percent of the total voters – which was listed in 2003, special intensive amendments do not need to present any auxiliary documents to establish their date or place or place or birth, except for the relevant part of the electoral roll.
Other three crores – about 40 percent – will have to provide one of the 11 listed documents to establish its place or date of birth.
Here too, voters who have been nominated in the list of 2003 voters will only have to give documents about their location/date of birth. They will not have to give documents about the date/date of the birth of their parents as their entry will be considered as proof in the 2003 list, underlining an officer.
“The original practice is to identify each of the remaining three crore voters and each person, before they join the list,” an officer explained.
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Bihar, so far, there are more than 7.89 crore voters spread over 243 assembly seats. Elections in the state are going to be held later this year.
According to EC instructions, the Election Registration Officer (ERO) of each assembly constituency will be responsible for ensuring that “no eligible citizen is released and no unqualified person is involved in the electoral role”, while making amendment.
Eros will satisfy himself about the eligibility of every person before entering his name in the electoral role.
The EC stated that each existing electoral, as is on the date, will be provided a calculation form through a blow. The electorate can download the calculation form from a dedicated website.
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The blo will collect a copy of the enumeration form and sign the acknowledgment of the receipt on the second copy to maintain by the current electoral.
Based on the calculation forms obtained along with the documents, the ERO will create a draft roll.
The final intensive amendment in Bihar was made on January 1, 2003 as a qualifying date.
“As the eligibility of the voters enrolled in the electoral rolls after the final intensive amendment, the Commission has decided that such voters do not need to attach any additional documents to attach to any additional documents.
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The poll panel said, “Thus, the CEO/DEO/ERO will make the electoral rolls free to all the blossoms in the hard copy with a qualifying date of 01.01.2003, as well as online to download and use it as a documentary evidence to download and use it on their website.”
As part of intensive amendment, the pole officer will verify door-to-door to ensure an error-free voters’ list.
Officials said the terms of the Legislative Assembly of Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are ending in May-June next year, and an intensive amendment of the electoral rolls in these states will begin by the end of the year, the officials said.
However, as the assembly elections in Bihar are at the end of this year, the EC immediately decided to conduct the state amendment.
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Amid allegations by opposition parties that the EC has fuled voter data to help the BJP, the pole panel has taken additional steps in intensive amendment to ensure that illegal migrants are not enrolled in the list of voters.
An additional ‘declaration form’ has been introduced for a category of applicants who are demanding to become voters or to move from outside the state. They have to begin that they were born in India before July 1, 1987, and provide any documents for the establishment of the date of birth and/or birth place.
One of the options listed as the announcement is that they were born in India between 1 July 1987 and 2 December 2004. They also have to submit documents about their parents’ date and place of birth.
The EC stated that several reasons, such as rapid urbanization, frequent migrations, youth citizens become eligible to vote, non-reporting of deaths and to include the names of foreign illegal immigrants requires the operation to ensure the preparation of integrity and preparation of error-free electoral rolls to include the names of foreign illegal immigrants.
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