UP voter list: Yogi Adityanath claims 1.27 crore Hindu voters missing after SIR exercise as Muslim voters up by 1.65%

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has actually declared that 1.27 crore Hindu citizens are missing out on from the draft electoral rolls of the state, ending up being the very first BJP chief minister to question the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) performed by the Election Commission of India.

When he was asked about whether this is evidence that there were abnormalities in the SIR workout, the UP CM dismissed the claims as’propaganda’.

Adityanath made these remarks throughout an occasion arranged by Hindi news channel Aaj Tak

Adityanath likewise declared that now that a lot of Hindu citizens have actually been erased, Akhilesh Yadav will not require the rollback of SIR.

“Ask Akhilesh Yadav to require the rollback of SIR now. He will refrain from doing so since the variety of Muslim citizens has actually increased by 1.65% in UP after SIR. And I have actually discussed the circumstance of Hindu citizens,” Adityanath stated at the occasion, according to The New Indian Express.

“That is why we have actually offered our memorandum to the Election Commission, asking why this took place,” the UP CM stated at the occasion.

“I am discussing those 1.27 crore Hindu citizens who have their names in the electoral list of UP panchayat surveys, however their names do not exist in the citizens’ list of ECI,” he added.

Adityanath claimed that among the 66 lakh voters in the state whose names were in the electoral list of the panchayat votes but not on the draft electoral rolls, 55 lakh are Hindus.

He also said that 4.5 lakh voters from the 18-29 age group are also missing from the electoral rolls.

At the SP’s Lucknow celebration workplace, Yadav stated, “The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, who kept the entire nation in a state of fear by constantly invoking the issue of infiltrators, now claims that the names of 1.27 crore Hindu voters have been cut,” based on a PTI report, including, “The question arises: How do they know that the names of Hindu voters are missing? It appears that the Election Commission has shared the entire data with the chief minister or the chief minister’s office. They show it to the public and political parties later, but first to the CM’s office,” the previous CM stated.

In a different X post, Yadav has actually raised some needs concerning elections:

“Aadhaar cards should be linked to voting”; “Instead of paper or plastic, ‘metal cards’ should be made so they cannot be forged”; and “Fingerprint or iris-based biometric identification should be adopted because no two people have the same biometrics, so the BJP will not be able to rig the vote.”