The Day 13 Crore Names Disappeared
Imagine waking up one morning and finding out that your name is no longer on the voter list. The exercise is being conducted under Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
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Imagine waking up one morning and finding out that your name is no longer on the voter list.
The exercise is being conducted under Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
These are draft-roll deletions, and the Election Commission says the exercise is meant to identify entries such as people who have died, permanently shifted, are untraceable, or have duplicate registrations.
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Imagine waking up one morning and finding out that your name is no longer on the voter list. The exercise is being conducted under Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. These are draft-roll deletions, and the Election Commission says the exercise is meant to identify entries such as people who have died, permanently shifted, are untraceable, or have duplicate registrations.
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- So the question isn't simply: "Why were 13.37 crore names deleted?" The bigger question is: "How do we make sure that while cleaning the voter list, the names of genuine voters don't get lost?" And that's...
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Because behind every number on a voter list is a real person.
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Now imagine this happening to crores of people. Does this mean 13.37 crore people's voting rights have been cancelled?
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