Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list before the Assembly elections 2027 in Uttar Pradesh has become a big political and organizational issue for the BJP. After Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath raised the question of names of about 1.27 crore Hindu voters missing from the voter list, the party has intensified preparations to field the organization in this matter.
Under this strategy, a state level workshop of BJP was organized at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, Lucknow on Friday. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also participated in this meeting called by State President Pankaj Chaudhary. The party's emphasis is on reaching out to those eligible voters whose names have not been included in the voter list due to some reason.
More than 700 officials from across the state were called in the workshop. These included District President, District In-charge, Regional President, Regional In-charge, District and Assembly level voter heads and IT coordinators. Senior leaders of the organization including State General Secretary Organization Dharampal Singh and Cooperation Minister JPS Rathore were also present in the meeting.
The main objective of the meeting is to identify the voters left out during SIR and to assign the responsibility to the workers to include the names of eligible people in the voter list. The party leadership wants that the campaign should not be limited to only state and district level meetings, but workers should become active at every booth and contact the people.
Issue of 1.27 crore names, Yogi had expressed concern
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has already raised the issue of lack of names in the voter list. He had claimed that the names of about 1.27 crore Hindu voters in Uttar Pradesh were not in the list. The political debate regarding this figure has also intensified.
The opposition has raised questions on this, while the BJP organization is taking it seriously and is preparing to add the names of the left out eligible voters. The challenge before the party is to reach out to those people who have been left out of the voter list during the SIR process or in whose names and details there are mistakes. For this, preparations are being made to instruct the workers to go door-to-door to collect information and help the needy voters in the process of getting their names added.
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Target to add new voters at every booth
In the workshop, emphasis is also being laid on increasing the number of voters at the booth level. According to available information, the party has set a target of adding 100 new voters at every booth. Along with this, the strategy to include the names of missing voters in the list again and correct the wrong entries was discussed.
A target has also been given to run a special voter addition campaign from November 17 to December 16 and to add 50 new voters per booth at about 1.73 lakh polling stations in the state. It is clear from this that BJP is also preparing campaigns at different levels to connect new voters with SIR.
Pankaj Chaudhary had already handed over the responsibility
After Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath raised the issue of names being left out in the voter list, State President Pankaj Chaudhary had assured that party workers will reach every house before the assembly elections. He had talked about handing over the responsibility of adding the names of the missing voters to the officials and workers of the organization.
Now efforts are being made to give a systematic form to this campaign through the workshop in Lucknow. The emphasis is on fixing responsibility from district heads to assembly and booth level voter heads. The party wants that information regarding complaints and missing names related to the voter list should be collected in time.
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The entire campaign is also related to the preparation for 2027.
This exercise of BJP is not considered to be limited only to improving the voter list. In view of the 2027 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the party is busy activating its organization at the booth level and increasing direct contact with the voters. Under the pretext of SIR, efforts are being made to reach the workers from door to door, to connect new voters and to strengthen the grassroots hold of the organization.
In such a situation, this workshop in Lucknow is considered important for BJP. Now it has to be seen how successful this campaign of the party is in adding the names of the eligible people left in the voter list and strengthening the organization at the booth level before the elections.