JAIPUR: More than 26 lakh of the 41.65 lakh voters deleted by Election Commission of India (ECI) in Rajasthan’s draft SIR are still listed on State Election Commission (SEC) electoral rolls prepared for 2026 Panchayati Raj and urban local body polls, an analysis by People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), dated Nov 11, has found. The data studied includes SEC’s second panchayat rolls supplement published up to Oct 12.The findings have raised concerns about the accuracy and integrity of the electoral rolls in several districts. PUCL’s district-wise assessment showed Baran has the highest share of ECI-deleted voters still appearing on SEC rolls at 83.1%, followed by Pali (81.8%), Jalore (81.5%), Bikaner (81.4%), Sirohi (80.5%) and Deedwana-Kuchaman (80.2%).The analysis further reported that 3.2 lakh people identified as dead by ECI continued to be on SEC rolls statewide. Banswara recorded the highest proportion at 70.7% (23,185 names), followed by Sirohi at 67.5% (13,165), Baran at 61.4% (11,000), Churu at 55.8% (15,050), Jalore at 54.4% (12,164), Ajmer at 51.1% (18,713) and Bikaner at 50.8% (14,192). PUCL claimed in the seven districts, at least half of those marked dead by ECI continued to have active entries on SEC rolls.The organisation further said that SEC rolls still included more than 17.32 lakh people whom ECI had deleted as shifted, 3.67 lakh classified as untraceable or absent, and over 1.83 lakh identified as already enrolled elsewhere.The updated figure of over 26 lakh SIR-deleted voters appearing on SEC rolls – 13.7 lakh on panchayat rolls and 12.4 lakh on municipal rolls – is 69,343 fewer than the nearly 26.7 lakh names identified in PUCL’s earlier analysis based on SEC’s Feb 25 panchayat rolls. The count of people identified as dead by ECI but still present on SEC rolls fell by 31,987, from 3,52,382 to 3,20,395.PUCL said the Oct supplement to the panchayat electoral rolls led to the removal of 69,578 ECI-deleted names, including 32,027 recorded as dead. It further said that SEC added 2.3 lakh names to its panchayat rolls, taking the total number of active names across its rolls to 5,47,86,896, which it said was 32,72,934 (6.4%) more than ECI’s final SIR roll of 5,15,13,962. PUCL said the gap in its previous analysis was 30,42,248 (5.9%).SEC secretary Rajesh Verma said the state roll numbers have increased over the past few months. “The reduction in the discrepancy between the two lists likely happened in the update process,” Verma said.
