In Delhi, only 0.27% of 4.5 lakh Form 6s disposed of so far

In Delhi, only 0.27% of 4.5 lakh Form 6s disposed of so far left Hundreds raise questions over SIR deletions in Mangolpuri on October 19, 2026 The Hindu The Hindu 9165 Hundreds raise questions over SIR deletions in Mangolpuri. Suruchi Kumari jan sunwai2 Of 4.5 lakh applications for inclusion, about 2.39 lakh were filed by those seeking re-inclusion or applying for the first time after the draft roll was published New Delhi Only 1,238 of the 4.5 lakh Form 6 applications seeking inclusion in Delhi’s electoral roll have been disposed of in 42 days, data accessed by The Hindu show.

With Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls underway in the city, eligible citizens left out of the draft roll, published on August 31, are required to fill Form 6, meant for new voters, in the ongoing claims and objections period to seek inclusion in the final roll. Delhi SIR: Public audit in two booths finds over 100 voters wrongly marked absent, shifted, or dead Delhi SIR: Public audit in two booths finds over 100 voters wrongly marked absent, shifted, or dead Voters residing at the same address for multiple decades express anger that they were marked ‘untraceable’, ‘absent’, and permanently shifted, and their only option is to enrol afresh using Form 6 Delhi SIR: Public audit in two booths finds over 100 voters wrongly marked absent, shifted, or dead storyline 1 Last week, Delhi’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) issued fresh directions instructing Electoral Registration Officers to reverify the 47.5 lakh names, through door-to-door visits by booth-level officers (BLOs), removed from the draft roll under the ‘Absent, Shifted, Dead and Duplicate’ (ASDD) categories.

Only 10 days remain to file forms for inclusion. However, not even 1% of the Form 6 applications received so far have been processed, delaying inclusion. These disposals include both accepted and rejected applications, shows the weekly constituency-wise form disposal report from August 31 to October 11. The deadline to dispose of all claims and objections is November 30, and the delay has raised concerns among citizens seeking re-inclusion.

People whose applications have been pending for over a month said they will lose the chance to reapply if their application is rejected due to errors after October 30, the last date for filing applications for inclusion in the final roll set to be published on December 4. Of the 4.5 lakh applications for inclusion, about 2.39 lakh were filed by those seeking re-inclusion or applying for the first time after the draft roll was published, according to the Delhi CEO’s daily bulletin of claims and objections received till October 18.

This is only a fraction of the 47.5 lakh names deleted at the draft stage. The remaining 2.12 lakh applications were received even before the draft roll was published, between June and August. Also read | Illogical reasons: On The Hindu’s investigation of Delhi’s draft rolls No disposal in 15 constituencies  The same report on form disposal shows that in 15 of the 70 constituencies, no Form 6 has been disposed.

This includes Burari, where 1.67 lakh names were deleted, the highest in Delhi in absolute numbers. In the entire north district, where over 36,000 applications have been received, only 27 forms have been disposed of. Officials attributed the delay to BLOs being engaged with disposal of notice cases. The same report shows that the disposal of applications objecting to the inclusion of names or requesting deletions of existing names in the roll through Form 7 is five times higher than that of Form 6.

Over 5,800 Form 7s have been disposed of during the same period. This is even as BLOs must conduct field verification for both applications for inclusion and objections, with the latter also including a 15-day notice period. Delhi SIR case: Supreme Court agrees to ‘take care of’ ECI move to restore deleted voters as fresh voters Delhi SIR case: Supreme Court agrees to ‘take care of’ ECI move to restore deleted voters as fresh voters The application has asked the court to direct the EC to frame an appropriate mechanism for restoration/inclusion of deleted voters without forcing them to apply as first-time voters Delhi SIR case: Supreme Court agrees to ‘take care of’ ECI move to restore deleted voters as fresh voters storyline 1 For Form 6 applications, a BLO is assigned to conduct physical verification and submit a report, based on which a decision is taken.

‘Rejected twice’  Shagufta, 35, said that for a month now she has been making rounds of the voter centre in Okhla constituency to get herself and her daughter, who turned 19 this year, enrolled. Ms. Shagufta was removed from Delhi’s roll even before the SIR began. “I submitted online application Form 6 twice for both of us, and it was rejected. No BLO contacted us and the number we got never picks up.” Even after she visited the voter centre, the reason for the rejection remained unclear.

“Now I want to submit the offline form, but voter centre is still asking me to fill it online,” she said. Muslims disproportionately flagged in Delhi SIR Muslims disproportionately flagged in Delhi SIR Muslims, who form 13.6% of electors on Delhi’s draft roll, made up 20.3% of those flagged for ‘logical discrepancies’ and 30% of those flagged under five reasons indicative of family size by the Election Commission’s ERONET software; in Bihar, which didn’t have ‘logical discrepancy’ checks, Muslims accounted for 18.4% of deleted electors, in line with their 17.7% share in population Exclusive Muslims disproportionately flagged in Delhi SIR storyline 1 Aman Singh, 42, who was left out of the roll after shifting to a new address in the same area, has been waiting for further action on his Form 6 for the past month.

He opened the ECINET app on his phone to show that he submitted his form on September 18, and a BLO was assigned on September 20, but there has been no progress since. “It has been a month. The SMS I received with the BLO’s conta…