Pune: At least 5.5 lakh names have been deleted from the voters' lists since the Lok Sabha poll after due process, election officials said on Monday amid opposition parties' allegations of mass-scale name deletions from electoral rolls of the constituencies where they had gained a lead in the general election. The opposition parties have alleged that around 2,500-10,000 names were deleted in such constituencies.
An MVA delegation even recently met state election officials demanding that the process of name deletion through online applications should be discontinued. Leader of opposition Vijay Wadettiwar has also urged people to check their names in the final voters' list. According to the election officials, about 3.
79 lakh names were deleted from the voters' lists till Aug 30 after the general election. Another 1.73 lakh names were removed between Sept 1 and Oct 20.
"Each name deletion was carried out only after receiving Form 7 and conducting thorough inquiries as per Election Commission of India guidelines," a senior election official told TOI. The chief electoral officer for Maharashtra , in a statement issued late evening on Monday, stated, "There was allegation of registration of electors around 10,000 per assembly constituency after the Lok Sabha election by some political parties. But the procedure of updating the electoral roll is done strictly as per prescribed rules.
..At the time of Lok Sabha election, total voters in the state were 9,29,43,890.
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