Today, Election Commission of India has released Bihar final electoral roll cancelling nearly 65 lakh missing, changed, or lapsed names following stringent cross-verification.
House-to-house survey done at district level by the election officers, utilizing booth-level officers for cross-verifying the voter lists and rectifying the names to make them proper, valid, and recent before going ahead with the elections.
The roll update was for minimizing duplication and discrepancies and to provide democratic process and avoid electoral roll misuse for upcoming elections in the state.
Total Electorate Figures Released
Total electorate of Bihar as per revised list is 7.58 crore after excluding the ineligible ones and inclusion of new eligible new voters.
4.02 crore male and 3.56 crore female and third-gender voters among them, enrolled in a ratio of over 2,500.
Revised figures provide political parties with a clear indication of the strength of the voters before introducing aggressive campaigning methods in the state constituencies, election officials added.
Importance of Deletions
65 lakh deletions are the Commission’s attempt at fictitious vote deletion and every vote as an authentic voice of an actual citizen.
Names removed effectively included electors who recorded as absent in alternative checks, citizens who had relocated but not informed the appropriate authorities, and those who had reported dead by local officials.
This cautious exercise, the government further noted, serves to maintain democratic purity intact by permitting the rolls to reflect modern-day trends in abode and demographic realities of Bihar’s rural and urban constituencies.
New Voters Added
Updation not only removed names but also covered thousands of more voters who attained majority or enrolled themselves within recent years under various voter registration campaigns, Bihar final electoral roll
The government made special efforts to conduct special drives at colleges, universities, and villages so that young people enroll to avoid any worthy citizen being denied the democratic right.
This mass-level optimism inhibits deletions so as to provide for the necessity of the perpetual upgradation of records and an exercise of democratic rights by the youth of Bihar on a free level.
Steps Ensuring Transparency
Election Commission made sure that top-level transparency ensured in the revision by publishing draft rolls so that citizens would be able to bring objections, allegations, and corrections before finalization.
Increased civic participation gave credibility, where citizens were voluntary upon making mistakes, producing documents needed, and assisting officers cross-verifying domestic information in the long revision process in most regions.
The Commission made sure citizens with genuine names, where possible by default always can remembered through coercive methods prior to voting.
Political Impact Anticipated
Political analysts have no hesitation that such amendments would bring about a deep impact to politics at the constituency level as changes in the voting figures are certain to replace existing vote banks of incumbent political parties.
Individual parties will analyze new roles for population shifts, re-tune campaign strategies for elections, and campaign logically in constituencies where changed figures would change results of votes.
Witnesses regard cancellation of fake and copy entries as rendering voting simple, reducing malpractice, and hopefully establishing confidence in the integrity and authenticity of the poll in the entire state.
Preparation for Future Polls
As new electoral rolls going on production presently, Bihar’s election machinery would thereafter be involved in organizational preparations such as deputation of officials, deployment of security personnel, and public campaigns. The official sources were reported to have been informed that the voter slips will be declared soon, the polling booths sealed, and mass programmes launched to familiarize the people with their rights and voting process.
Election Commission once again proved that it is able to hold free, fair, and impartial elections on a level playing field to all the voters of Bihar.
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