SEPPA, OCT 19:
Arunachal Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Tadar Niglar on Monday attended an extended district executive meeting at Seppa in East Kameng district, where he stressed the need to strengthen the party organisation at the grassroots level and advocated the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Niglar interacted with party workers from East Kameng and its four mandals, urging them to improve coordination and strengthen organisational activities across the district.
Defending the SIR process, he said accurate and updated electoral rolls were essential to maintaining the integrity of elections. He referred to the Representation of the People Act, 1950, and outlined the procedures involved in revising electoral rolls, including the appointment and training of Booth Level Agents (BLAs), household verification by Booth Level Officers (BLOs), publication of draft rolls and the process for filing claims and objections.
Niglar said political parties were asked to appoint BLAs before the exercise and that the agents were trained in coordination with election officials. He added that the enumeration process included offline and online options, while BLOs verified information and conducted household visits.
He said voters and political parties were given opportunities to raise claims, objections and requests for corrections through the prescribed forms before publication of the final electoral roll. Citing the BJP’s training sessions for its BLAs and the participation of party workers in the process, he said he was familiar with the procedure.
Referring to figures cited in his remarks, Niglar said around 13.30 crore names had been omitted from electoral rolls during the current exercise. He listed approximately 2.8 crore deceased voters, 6.3 crore people who had shifted, one crore duplicate entries and three crore untraceable voters among the categories. He maintained that the exercise was a structured process and should not be portrayed as arbitrary.
Criticising protests against the SIR led by opposition parties, including the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party, Niglar alleged that their actions were politically motivated and aimed at creating disruption rather than engaging constructively with the revision process.
Questioning the Opposition’s objections, he asked whether removing duplicate entries and verifying the eligibility of voters whose particulars could not be established through prescribed procedures was wrong.
Niglar said the objective of electoral roll revision should be to ensure that all eligible Indian citizens were registered while preventing duplicate and ineligible entries. He urged BJP workers to explain the objectives and procedures of the SIR to the public and promote awareness of the electoral process.
