The second phase of the SIR process is going on across the country. After Bihar, SIR started in 12 states and union territories of the country from October 28. Through this, work is being done to update the voter list of these 12 states. This is an electoral process. In this the voter list is updated. The process of SIR has been completed in Tamil Nadu, after which the names of about 97.4 lakh voters have been removed from the voter list.
Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik said that now there are a total of 5.43 crore voters in the state. Before SIR, the number of voters in the state was 6.41 crore. The state now includes 2.66 crore men, 2.77 crore women and 7,191 transgender voters. Maximum names of 14.25 lakh voters have been removed in Chennai. Earlier there were 40.04 lakh voters, now 25.79 lakh are left.
The calculation phase of the SIR process ended on 14 December. After this, the Election Commission has now released the revised list. District election officials have released the draft list and handed over its details to the registered political parties.
Names are decreasing by lakhs from every state
Under the SIR process, such names are removed who are either dead or have left the state. Names of more than 73.73 lakh voters have been reduced in the new SIR list released in Gujarat. 58.20 lakh names have been deleted from the new voter list of West Bengal. It is estimated that names of 25 lakh people can be deleted in Madhya Pradesh also.
This is a democratic process- BJP President
Bharatiya Janata Party’s Tamil Nadu President Nainar Nagendran on Thursday accused the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) of adopting double standards. She said that despite active participation, she is criticizing the ongoing SIR process of voter lists.
He said that if DMK really opposed it, they could have boycotted it. Instead, he chose to participate in the process and later criticize it for political reasons. Such childish behavior is not acceptable in a democracy. He said that it was a democratic process which was conducted at the right time.
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