Delhi’s SIR Roll Revision: Over 4,000 Objections Vanish from Official List

Between August 31 and October 16, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi said the city received a total of 13,462 Form 7 applications – basically requests to delete a name from the electoral roll.

Now, here’s where things get a little odd. The Election Commission of India’s 2023 Manual on Electoral Roll says that an objection can’t be acted on until it’s published in the public domain, specifically in the Form 10 list on the CEO’s website, and it must stay up for at least seven days.

Fast‑forward to today’s disclosures: only 9,199 of those applications have actually been posted in the Form 10 list. That means roughly one‑third – 4,263 objections – are missing from the mandatory public record.

Why does that matter? Because without that seven‑day public posting, the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) isn’t even allowed to consider the objection. In other words, those 4,263 requests are stuck in limbo, invisible to the very people they’re supposed to serve.

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) phase is supposed to be a transparent, time‑bound process – the first 45 days are meant for claims and objections, with everything laid out for public scrutiny. The absence of such a sizable chunk of data raises eyebrows and questions about procedural compliance.

For voters and candidates alike, the missing entries could translate into unaddressed grievances, delayed corrections, and a general erosion of trust in the electoral roll’s accuracy. Whether this is a simple administrative oversight or something more systemic, the fact remains: the public isn’t getting the full picture.

As the SIR moves forward, watchdogs and civil‑society groups are likely to press the CEO and the Election Commission for a clearer explanation and, ideally, a swift correction to bring those 4,263 objections back into the open.