Silchar: Anxiety gripped Sribhumi and Cachar districts after allegations of attempts to delete names of genuine voters during the ongoing Special Revision (SR-2026) of electoral rolls started doing the rounds, triggering protests and demands for urgent intervention.In Sribhumi, senior citizens and representatives of the civil society convened an emergency meeting on Thursday evening amid growing concern over the alleged misuse of Form 7 during the ‘claims and objections’ phase. After deliberations, a delegation met district commissioner Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi on Friday and submitted a memorandum seeking immediate corrective measures. Copies were also emailed to the Assam chief electoral officer and the Election Commission of India.The civil society alleged that a large number of objections were accepted without proper verification of applicants’ identity or mandatory documents. In several cases, voters claimed they were unaware of objections filed against their names and had not signed any such applications. Representatives further questioned the fairness of the process after notices were issued to voters — already verified as genuine by booth-level officers (BLOs) — asking them to appear for hearings at distant locations.The district commissioner, however, assured that no genuine voter’s name would be deleted, even if hearing notices had been issued.In Cachar district, similar allegations surfaced from the Borkhola assembly constituency, where residents have accused the election machinery of targeted deletions, particularly affecting minority voters. Locals from the Rajnagar–Manikpur area alleged that objections filed by one or two individuals through multiple Form 7 submissions have put nearly 1,500 voters at risk of deletion, including even serving BLOs.
