1.27 Crore Hindu Voters Missing From UP Rolls, Alleges Yogi Adityanath
· India · India Today
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has dismissed opposition allegations of irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision exercise as propaganda. However, he raised questions over the absence of 1.27 crore Hindu voters from the state's draft electoral rolls. Speaking at the AajTak Panchayat, the Chief Minister questioned why Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has not demanded the revision be scrapped despite crying foul over it. Yogi claimed the number of Muslim voters in the rolls increased by 1.65 per cent while millions of Hindu voters went missing, including beneficiaries of government welfare schemes and youth aged 18 to 19. He stated that his government submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission of India seeking the inclusion of all eligible missing voters. The Chief Minister insisted that while 46 lakh deceased voters should be removed, eligible living citizens must not be left out.
Why it matters
The large-scale deletion of voters from electoral rolls directly impacts millions of citizens' voting rights ahead of the high-stakes Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, raising questions about administrative accuracy.
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