Lucknow. Recently, while talking to a news channel, UP CM Yogi Adityanath had said that the names of 1.27 crore Hindu voters have been deleted in UP and the number of Muslim voters has increased by 1.65 percent. CM Yogi had expressed concern on this. According to the report of Dainik Hindustan newspaper, it has now been revealed that in UP, the names of 3.38 crore voters are short, not 1.27 crore. This number has been found by matching the voter list of Panchayat and civic elections with the voter list of assembly elections. After this was revealed, the Election Commission has ordered to match the names from all three voter lists.
The newspaper report says that there are 12.58 crore voters in the Panchayat voter list of UP. Whereas, according to the voter list of the assembly elections, there are only 10.28 crore voters in rural areas. That means there is a confusion of 2.38 crore in the number of voters included in both the voter lists. Similarly, there are 4.32 crore voters in the voter list prepared for urban bodies. At the same time, there are only 3.31 crore voters in the voter list for the city assembly elections. In such a situation, including the voter list of Panchayat and civic elections, there are a total of 16.90 crore voters. At the same time, there are only 13.52 crore voters in the voter list for the assembly elections. The issue of irregularities in the number of voters came to light when the Allahabad High Court ordered an inquiry into the dispute over the number of voters in Makdoompur village of Rae Bareli.
There were names of 1987 voters in the voter list of the Panchayat in Makdoompur village. Whereas, only 1549 voters were shown in the voter list of the assembly elections. This discrepancy was challenged in the Allahabad High Court. On the orders of the court, 448 voters were examined. The Election Commission found that 44 voters were transferred to nearby polling stations. Whereas, 290 were ineligible, moved to another place and were duplicates. Now order for investigation has been issued. So that the real number of voters at other places can be known. It is also being complained that all the BLOs did not go to the houses in their area. They got the names deleted. An example is being given from Lucknow. 55997 new voters have been added to the Muslim dominated Lucknow West Assembly seat. Whereas, names of 1.44 lakh voters have been deleted from the Hindu dominated Lucknow North Assembly seat.