Jaipur: Nearly 30 lakh voters appearing in Rajasthan's electoral rolls used for local body elections are missing from the Election Commission's final electoral list following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), a civil rights body activist claimed.
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The discrepancy has allegedly emerged between the Election Commission's final SIR roll and electoral lists maintained by the Rajasthan State Election Commission (SEC) for urban local body and panchayat elections.
The SEC has attributed the difference to its reliance on the pre-SIR electoral roll, saying preparations for local body elections had begun much earlier.
As per the final SIR electoral roll for Rajasthan, published in February 2026, the state's electorate reduced from 5.47 crore to 5.15 crore after 44.28 lakh names were deleted and 12.91 lakh added.
The SEC's electoral lists for the same 199 assembly constituencies, however, continued to include around 5.45 crore voters, leaving a difference of nearly 30 lakh.
SEC Secretary Rajesh Verma said the commission had used the Election Commission's pre-SIR electoral roll, last updated on January 1, 2025, as the base for local body elections.
The SEC traditionally uses Election Commission rolls updated through the annual Special Summary Revision for local polls, Verma said.
Chief Electoral Officer Naveen Mahajan said the SEC relied on the pre-SIR list. No objections had been raised in Rajasthan regarding the final SIR roll, he said.
Rights activist and Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan founder Nikhil Dey questioned the SEC's decision, arguing that electoral rolls are continuously updated and the commission could have adopted the final SIR list.
Dey also sought an explanation for the SEC considering its older roll more accurate than the Election Commission's final version. He questioned how booth-level officers could mark voters as deceased in one electoral roll while retaining their names in another.
A comparative analysis by Dey found that 26.63 lakh voters deleted during the SIR exercise continued to appear in the SEC's 2026 urban and panchayat electoral rolls.
