CM Yogi
LUCKNOW: Stirred by the deletion of 2.89 crore voters from Uttar Pradesh’s draft electoral roll following the SIR exercise, BJP’s state unit has decided to launch a campaign to trace the “absent” and “transferred” voters ahead of the 2027 assembly polls. The announcement comes in the wake of CM Yogi Adityanath’s assertion that the majority of “missing” voters are primarily BJP supporters. As per an estimate, UP’s electoral roll should have over 15 crore voters. A senior party functionary said the campaign will focus on three fonts: tracing the absent and transferred voters, re-enrolling voters whose names got deleted due to documentation gaps, and tapping first-time voters, especially youth. Party MPs, MLAs and MLCs at the local level will be involved in the campaign. The district units have been alerted to carry out the drive aggressively. A special focus will be on filling in Form 6, the primary application used by Indian citizens to get registered as a new voter or to get their registration transferred while moving to a different constituency. Experts said the focus on Form 6 indicates that BJP seeks to align its cadre network closely with EC procedures, keeping the effort formally within legal bounds.
