The Election Commission of India (ECI) published the draft electoral rolls for Delhi on Monday after the completion of the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. The draft roll has 9.7 million electors, 4.8 million (32.8%) less than the 14.5 million electors on the rolls before SIR. In other words, one in three electors on Delhi’s electoral roll was removed in the first phase of SIR. Is this an unusually high rate of cuts? An HT analysis shows that a third of electors being deleted is indeed a big number, but par for the course for urban centres comparable to Delhi’s size and urban population. Read the details here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dZCn_Ywn 🗞️ For in-depth reporting: https://lnkd.in/fEHAd_K 📩 Subscribe now: http://bit.ly/2QAOH22
