Manas Dasgupta
NEW DELHI, Sept 19: The names of the former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his entire family including his wife, son and parents are missing from the Delhi voters’ list and have been issued notices by the Election Commission because their voters’ details were not mapped to the previous Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
The names of incumbent Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and a minister in her cabinet Parvesh Sahib Singh are also among the 33.1 lakh electors in the Delhi draft electoral roll for whom notices have been generated, either because of “logical discrepancies” in their voter details or because their details were not mapped to the previous Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
The Delhi Chief Electoral Officer on Saturday published the list of electors flagged for discrepancies. Those on the list can get their documents verified in hearings held for this purpose.
Reacting to the SIR notices served on Mr Kejriwal and his family, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in a post on X said, “Is everything happening in this country just to keep the Supreme Lord happy? ECI, how is it possible that the names of three-time Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and his family members are missing from the Delhi voter list?”
An EC official later clarified that they would be added to the final list, to come on November 6, as notices have been issued only because they did not map themselves to the previous SIR list.
Ms Rekha Gupta’s name figures in the list of electors flagged for notices in Part Number 123 of the Shalimar Bagh Assembly constituency. The Election Commission’s (EC’s) software flagged her name for an “age gap of less than 15 years between a parent and progeny.” The system also flagged Delhi Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh’s record for “self-name mismatch,” which means a mismatch between the name given during the current SIR process and the previous roll, in Part Number 59 of the New Delhi constituency. He is the son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma.
Mr Kejriwal’s name, along with those of his parents, Gobind Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi, wife Sunita Kejriwal and son Pulkit Kejriwal, have been flagged under the “no mapping” category. This category covers electors whose details, or those of a relative, were not provided or could not be linked to the previous SIR roll during the enumeration exercise.
Electors in the no-mapping category will have to establish their eligibility by submitting documents from the 12 documents prescribed by the EC for the verification process.
There are 11 categories of such discrepancies in Delhi, including a mismatch in names between the current and previous rolls, more than six progeny being linked to the same parent, an age gap of less than 40 years between a voter and a grandparent, and a mismatch in the father’s name or the relative to whom an elector has been linked. Similar categories of mapping anomalies have been identified by the EC in SIR exercises in other States. Around 19.3 lakh electors in Delhi have been flagged for such “logical discrepancies.”
A senior election official said prominent leaders and other well-known personalities would not be required to visit hearing centres. The electoral registration officer (ERO) would prepare a list of such cases and direct booth-level officers (BLOs) to visit their registered addresses to verify and resolve the discrepancies, the official said.
The 33.1 lakh electors who have received notices constitute roughly one-third of the 97.5 lakh electors included in the draft roll. The verification and disposal of these cases are to be completed by October 29, while the final electoral roll is scheduled to be published on November 4.
Earlier, the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) of the New Delhi Assembly constituency issued a clarification, saying that non-inclusion of a name in the draft roll did not by itself constitute a final determination of ineligibility. The officer said Booth Level Officers (BLOs) undertook house-to-house visits for distribution of enumeration forms and verification as prescribed under the ECI’s instructions issued on May 14, 2026.
The ERO further clarified that eligible persons whose names do not appear in the draft electoral roll have an opportunity to submit claims for inclusion through Form 6, along with the required declaration and supporting documents, during the claims and objections period from August 31 to September 30.
On Saturday, the Delhi election office said it published online the list of names with discrepancies. “As on date, 31,63,930 notices have been generated and are being delivered to electors concerned of Delhi. Notices are being issued to the electors who could not be linked with the electoral roll of the last revision and to those having logical discrepancies in their linking with the electoral roll of the last revision,” a statement said.
Teams are holding camps for hearings, Delhi Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ashok Kumar said. “There are two types of notices: one for unmapped voters, and one for mapped voters in whose case there are small discrepancies in their names or date of birth, etc,” the CEO said at a press conference. Electors must submit their replies with requisite documents to the EROs. Disposal of notices will be completed by October 10, the CEO said.
The EC sources said during the Delhi SIR exercise 91,826 applications were receive during claims and objection phase between August 31 and September 16. A total of 22,715 applications received seeking correction or modification, 922 form 7 applications seeking deletion of names and 146 form 6A applications from overseas electors. The Election Commission officials would examine the applications and complete the disposal process by October 29.
Under the SIR, the names of 47.7 lakh electors out of 1.45 crore of the national capital’s total voters were excluded. During the process of drafting the electoral roll, the officials digitised the forms of roughly 67.18 per cent of the 1,45,10,299 electors in the national capital. The rest of the 47.7 lakh electors were categorised as “uncollectable” under Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate and Others (ASDDO), and they were excluded from the draft list.