13 lakh Delhi voters deleted in pre-SIR mapping phase, highest in Phase-3
An analysis of Delhi's electoral rolls reveals that over 13 lakh voters were deleted during a pre-mapping phase, with total deletions reaching over a third of the 2025 electorate. Citizens report being removed from the rolls without notice or clear explanation.
Why it matters
The mass deletion of voters raises serious concerns regarding democratic transparency and the integrity of the electoral process.
Pooja Devi, 38, has been living at the same address in Kalkaji for the past two decades, employed in domestic work, raising her children, and regularly voting in elections. When the special intensive revision of electoral rolls began in the national capital in June, however, she did not get any enumeration form. Once the draft roll was published, she hoped to find her name in the list of those removed because they were absent, shifted, dead, or with duplicate names, known as the ASDD list, but her name was missing there too.
“My husband and children received their forms but I did not. I had also voted in the 2025 elections with them. My name is nowhere,” she said, flummoxed by the booth-level officer’s claim that no form was generated in her name.
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