00:05Now, beginning with breaking news at this given point, this is the poll panel defending the SIR notices to the
00:12big wigs.
00:13Now, what we are getting to understand, Delhi poll body notices do not mean deletion.
00:18That is what the poll body has come out to say.
00:20They have to say that Delhi, in fact, the Delhi poll body has to say that the notices are a
00:26part of standard operating procedures.
00:28There is nothing more to it at this point of time.
00:32But this is the breaking news that we are bringing to you.
00:35On that note, viewers, the Election Commission sources have also come out to say that the CEO is facilitating,
00:41that is, the Chief Election Officer is facilitating all such cases on priority.
00:45This is an SIR exercise that has been underway in the national capital.
00:51And high-profile names have, in fact, come under the EC scanner.
00:54And that is where this entire story got triggered.
00:56Because the names included, the likes of a sitting cabinet minister of the centre, which is S.J. Shankar, his
01:04wife.
01:05Again, ex-army chief.
01:08His wife as well get SIR notices.
01:10And they have all been notified that they are unmapped with the last SIR.
01:16That's where the problem arises.
01:17Now, other names, other high-profile names are included in this.
01:21CBI director, Sood, family.
01:23They also get the EC notices.
01:25Now, what is it that the Delhi poll body has come out to respond to this?
01:29That there is a deletion saga.
01:32There is an SIR deletion saga.
01:35The entire alert that's been brought up from these high-profile voters itself.
01:40However, this is a part of the procedure.
01:42There is nothing to be afraid of here.
01:44It does not mean that your name will be deleted from the list altogether.
01:48And we have Aishwarya Paliwal joining us on the broadcast with more details on the same.
01:52Aishwarya, very good evening to you.
01:54What exactly do we understand from the poll body's response here?
01:57Because they have to say this is standard operating procedure.
02:00But it's also, at the end of the day, a bit concerning when such high-profile voters are getting notices.
02:06Then it also raises questions about what is then happening to other voters out there.
02:11Well, definitely, you know, the other question that you have asked is something that almost everyone at the moment is
02:16grappling with,
02:17be it the CEO's office, be it the Election Commission of India.
02:20From what we understand from our social media, the EPA is keeping a hawk's eye on this.
02:26The CEO, in fact, is looking at all these big ticket names on priority.
02:30So these names will be fixed.
02:32Also, there's a big clarification coming in from the CEO's office.
02:35And they are saying that people still have one month's time to make sure that they do get their names
02:40cleared and rectified.
02:43So that is also something which at the moment is being done.
02:46But yes, what we will now have to wait and see is whether these names are being added in the
02:51final list or not.
02:52That actually is a big question.
02:54And that is the main test.
02:55Because a lot of people, in fact, have been questioning that, yes, names are getting deleted.
02:59People are going with documents, but it's taking a long time for the rectification process to actually conclude.
03:05So will it happen in the national capital?
03:07Also, that's a big question.
03:08We will have to wait and watch.
03:09But yes, the CEO's office at the moment is maintaining that these cases, the high-profile cases that we have
03:14been seeing,
03:15being deleted in the draft list, these big cases are being looked at on priority.
03:20You know, Aishwarya, the other aspect that had played out of this entire story is the fact that there was
03:25politics already snowballing over the matter.
03:28Because opposition leaders had to say that, as usual, they'd come to, you know, point their guns, calling it almost
03:35politically motivated what was happening.
03:37Those were the allegations coming in from the likes of Manish Asodia, Arvind Kejriwal, earlier in the day when their
03:43names had, in fact, appeared in this list as well,
03:45with similar notices being served.
03:47Now, with such members also being present in the very list, I think one thing gets very clear here that
03:54there is no particular, you know, vendetta here that's playing out at the end of the day.
04:00It is a procedural, if at all, a lapse for that matter that needs to be looked at much more
04:06closely.
04:07Well, definitely, you know, the process needs to be looked at much more closely, because what this has brought to
04:12the fore is the fact that
04:15we are seeing high-profile names being, in fact, added to the list, their names being deleted.
04:22And this definitely, you know, brings to the fore a big question, what happens to those who, you know, who
04:28have genuine documents,
04:29but they have their names cut out. So, if we have, you know, people like Najeeb Jang, if we have
04:34people like the other top of the profile names like Amit Maldia,
04:41then what will happen to the common man? That's a big question which definitely is being asked and is the
04:46question that both the ECIA as well as the CEO's office will have to clarify.
04:49For now, they are in a firefighting mode and they are saying that the top names that have been deleted,
04:55they are being looked at on priority.
05:00Right, Aishwarya, thank you for putting that into perspective for our viewers and we'll, of course, keep a very close
05:05track on this very story.
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