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The Election Commission of India (ECI) has pushed back the publication of Uttar Pradesh’s draft electoral rolls by five days, revising the schedule for the Special Summary Revision (SSR) ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections.
The draft voter list, initially scheduled for November 12, will now be published on November 17, while the final electoral roll covering all 403 Assembly constituencies is expected on January 4, 2027.
The revised timetable also extends the period for filing claims and objections. Voters will be able to submit Form 6 for inclusion of names, Form 7 for deletion and Form 8 for corrections between November 17 and December 16.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa announced the revised schedule on Tuesday (November 10), stating that January 1, 2027, would continue to be the qualifying date for determining voter eligibility.
Under the earlier schedule, the draft electoral roll was to be published on November 12, with December 11 set as the deadline for claims and objections.
Although the publication date has been postponed, the deadline for resolving claims and objections remains December 28. This leaves election officials with a shorter window to examine applications and complete the verification process before the final rolls are published.
Rinwa has directed district election officers to ensure that the revised schedule is widely publicised through newspapers, electronic media and other communication channels.
The announcement comes amid a political controversy over alleged large-scale deletions from Uttar Pradesh's electoral rolls.
Chief Minister Adityanath has claimed that the names of 1.27 crore Hindu voters have been removed from the state's voter list, raising questions about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
“Ask Akhilesh Yadav to demand the rollback of SIR now. He will not do so because the number of Muslim voters has increased by 1.65% in Uttar Pradesh after SIR. And I have spoken about the situation of Hindu voters,” he told Hindi news channel UP Tak.
“That is why we have given our memorandum to the Election Commission, asking why this happened,” the chief minister said, adding, “I am speaking about those 1.27 crore Hindu voters who have their names in the electoral list of Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls, but their names do not exist in the voters’ list of ECI.”
Adityanath further alleged that 66 lakh voters had been affected, including 55 lakh Hindu beneficiaries of government welfare schemes whose names were missing from the electoral rolls. He also claimed that 4.5 lakh voters belonging to the 18-19 age group were absent from the list.
Further, Adityanath questioned, “How did it happen? Who was behind this? There are 66 lakh such voters; 55 lakh are those Hindu voters who are getting benefits of the government’s welfare schemes, but their names are missing from electoral rolls; and 4.5 lakh voters from the 18-19 age group are missing from the electoral rolls.”
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, meanwhile, has put forward a set of demands concerning electoral procedures, ostensibly to prevent manipulation during elections.
“Simple, straightforward demands regarding the election: Aadhaar cards should be linked to voting. Instead of paper or plastic, ‘metal cards’ should be made so they cannot be forged. Fingerprint or iris-based biometric identification should be adopted because no two people have the same biometrics, so the BJP will not be able to rig the vote,” the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister wrote on X.
The revised electoral roll schedule and the competing political claims have brought the voter revision exercise in Uttar Pradesh under renewed scrutiny ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections.
The draft voter list, initially scheduled for November 12, will now be published on November 17, while the final electoral roll covering all 403 Assembly constituencies is expected on January 4, 2027.
The revised timetable also extends the period for filing claims and objections. Voters will be able to submit Form 6 for inclusion of names, Form 7 for deletion and Form 8 for corrections between November 17 and December 16.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa announced the revised schedule on Tuesday (November 10), stating that January 1, 2027, would continue to be the qualifying date for determining voter eligibility.
Under the earlier schedule, the draft electoral roll was to be published on November 12, with December 11 set as the deadline for claims and objections.
Although the publication date has been postponed, the deadline for resolving claims and objections remains December 28. This leaves election officials with a shorter window to examine applications and complete the verification process before the final rolls are published.
Rinwa has directed district election officers to ensure that the revised schedule is widely publicised through newspapers, electronic media and other communication channels.
The announcement comes amid a political controversy over alleged large-scale deletions from Uttar Pradesh's electoral rolls.
Chief Minister Adityanath has claimed that the names of 1.27 crore Hindu voters have been removed from the state's voter list, raising questions about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
“Ask Akhilesh Yadav to demand the rollback of SIR now. He will not do so because the number of Muslim voters has increased by 1.65% in Uttar Pradesh after SIR. And I have spoken about the situation of Hindu voters,” he told Hindi news channel UP Tak.
“That is why we have given our memorandum to the Election Commission, asking why this happened,” the chief minister said, adding, “I am speaking about those 1.27 crore Hindu voters who have their names in the electoral list of Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls, but their names do not exist in the voters’ list of ECI.”
Adityanath further alleged that 66 lakh voters had been affected, including 55 lakh Hindu beneficiaries of government welfare schemes whose names were missing from the electoral rolls. He also claimed that 4.5 lakh voters belonging to the 18-19 age group were absent from the list.
Further, Adityanath questioned, “How did it happen? Who was behind this? There are 66 lakh such voters; 55 lakh are those Hindu voters who are getting benefits of the government’s welfare schemes, but their names are missing from electoral rolls; and 4.5 lakh voters from the 18-19 age group are missing from the electoral rolls.”
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, meanwhile, has put forward a set of demands concerning electoral procedures, ostensibly to prevent manipulation during elections.
“Simple, straightforward demands regarding the election: Aadhaar cards should be linked to voting. Instead of paper or plastic, ‘metal cards’ should be made so they cannot be forged. Fingerprint or iris-based biometric identification should be adopted because no two people have the same biometrics, so the BJP will not be able to rig the vote,” the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister wrote on X.
The revised electoral roll schedule and the competing political claims have brought the voter revision exercise in Uttar Pradesh under renewed scrutiny ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections.
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