The exercise has triggered strong political reactions, with the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) claiming that the large-scale deletion of voter names would severely impact the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2027 Assembly elections.
"Therefore, I appeal to everyone to take the task of enrolling new voters seriously and to fully engage in it," he told SP legislators here on Tuesday.
Thousands of students and job aspirants took to streets here on Thursday demanding immediate implementation of a domicile policy in government jobs ensuring priority to candidates possessing local residence certificates.
The revision that aims at the registration of a maximum number of eligible first-time voters of 18 years and above will commence on 25 July and conclude on 20 August.
Voter gender ratio has improved in Jammu and Kashmir where 2.31 lakh new electors have been added in the final electoral roll ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.
CM Vijayan said that the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is part of the BJP's communal agenda to pull down the country's multiplicity of voices.
The Commission has issued a detailed standard operating procedure for handling the processing of DSEs and PSEs in the electoral rolls.
