In latest electoral rolls, number of Delhi voters down 1.2 lakh in 1 year

Noida | Saturday | 19th January, 2019

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Since 2014, when there were 1.27 crore voters in the city, the number has increased by 9.88 lakh.Of the 70 assembly constituencies, Matiala has the largest 3.69 lakh electors while Delhi Cantt is the smallest constituency with just 1.16 lakh voters. So, anybody who has a voter ID card but whose name does not figure in the electoral rolls should get his or her name included by filling up form 6. The voting rights of the people of Delhi have been snatched,” said AAP spokesperson Raghav Chadha Chief electoral officer Ranbir Singh said the updation of electoral rolls will continue till the eve of the LS polls. Deletion of voters from the electoral rolls has been a subject of a political slugfest between AAP and BJP, with CM Arvind Kejriwal alleging that the saffron party had got 30 lakh voters struck off the rolls and BJP rebutting the charge.Chief electoral officer Ranbir Singh said the drop in the number of voters was the result of an intensive revision of rolls. We want to include all the voters and leave none,” he said.According to the electoral rolls, the gender ratio of the electors in the national capital has improved slightly over the past year..