Bhopal, Dec 22 || After more than one-and-a-half month of door-to-door Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Madhya Pradesh, the Election Commission of India (ECI) will release the draft electoral roll of voters for the state on Tuesday, election officials said on Monday.
The official sources in the Chief Electoral Office (CEO) here in Madhya Pradesh told that, preliminary assessment suggesting that the names of nearly 41.8 lakh voters, that is, about 7.2 per cent of the electorate, are likely to be deleted from the SIR.
According to official sources, preliminary data show that, of the 41.8 lakh names flagged, 8.4 lakh voters were found dead, another 8.4 lakh were marked absent, 22.5 lakh had shifted to other locations and 2.5 lakh were registered at multiple addresses.
In Bhopal, where there are 21.25 lakh registered voters, about 4.3 lakh names -- 20.23 per cent are likely to be dropped in the draft electoral rolls.