00:00Let's turn from there to the big controversy of the day because with every passing day, the special intensive revision
00:06exercise in the national capital is throwing an unusual list of names who suddenly find themselves under scrutiny.
00:14Union ministers, former chief ministers, senior bureaucrats, judges, election officials, all figure among the 33 lakh people who have been
00:23issued notices whose names are not on the electoral rolls.
00:27The EC claims that being issued notices does not mean that your name will be deleted.
00:34But the fact is more than half of Delhi's voters either find themselves deleted or their names not on the
00:42electoral rolls.
00:43Why? Take a look at this detailed report.
01:01The special intensive revision of Delhi's electoral rolls has put more than half the city's voters under the scanner.
01:10Of the 1.45 crore voters, 47.5 lakh are deleted from the draft roll under the absent, shifted, dead
01:20or duplicate category.
01:23Now comes the kicker.
01:25Another 33.13 lakh are flagged for discrepancies.
01:30Of these, 19.33 lakh are marked under logical discrepancies.
01:3613.80 lakh are classified as not mapped with 2002 roll.
01:41The Delhi chief electoral officer says, 31,63,930 notices were generated by September 19.
01:50Now the names appearing in the list are drawing attention.
01:55Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta
01:57Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and family
02:01External Affairs Minister S. Jai Shankar and his wife
02:05Former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani
02:07Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia
02:11Former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar
02:13Election Commission Sukhbir Singh Sandhu
02:16CBI Director Praveen Sood
02:19Former Army Chief General Upendra Divedi
02:22SEBI Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey
02:24And several senior bureaucrats, former judges, politicians and public figures.
02:30If even prominent citizens are left out, how does the armed army cope?
02:55This is a chaotic situation and the whole thing has started in the name of finding Guzbaitiyas.
03:02Until today, they haven't told us how many Bangladesh in Guzbaitiyas have they caught.
03:07Justice Chief, Chief Justice Chandrasur, Mr. Advani, election commissioner Sandhu,
03:15former Vice President, you name it, they're all there.
03:19Their names will get included in the next one week, for sure.
03:22But that is no big deal. What about the common man?
03:25Who is talking about them?
03:29The election commission says a notice does not mean a voter has been declared ineligible.
03:35The elector gets an opportunity to submit documents.
03:39The electoral registration officer examines the documents and the booth-level officer's report before taking a decision.
03:46The disposal of notices is scheduled to be completed by October 29.
03:51The final electoral roll is scheduled for publication on November 4th.
03:56But there is another question buried inside this exercise.
04:00While the voter is being told to update, correct, explain and produce documents,
04:05what if the discrepancy was already inside the electoral database?
04:10I have been listed as someone whose parental age is less than 15.
04:15And the detail when I tried to sort from the BLO, they said that my father's age was shown as
04:24zero.
04:24When I corresponded the actual document to 2002, my father's age clearly shows as 45,
04:32thereby raising a question that at which point did 45 become zero in the ECI data,
04:39thereby leading to a logical discrepancy.
04:42Delhi's SIR is still a work in progress.
04:45The election commission says notices are part of due process,
04:50not a declaration that anyone has lost the right to vote.
04:53But is the process itself flawed?
04:57Vishriya Chatterjee, Amit Bharadwaj, Aishwarya Paliwal and Sanjay Sharma, Bureau Report, India Today.
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