Electoral administrative audits in the national capital triggered widespread scrutiny on Sunday after the name of renowned economist and former Economic Advisory Council chairman Bibek Debroy, who passed away in late 2024, surfaced in draft revision documents. The late Padma Shri recipient was listed under official ‘no-mapping’ verification notices during Delhi’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision exercise.
District election officials explained that automated geospatial matching algorithms flagged thousands of historical voter records where residential plot numbers failed to align with modernized municipal GIS spatial layers. Booth-level officers have been instructed to conduct physical door-to-door field verifications across all assembly segments to remove deceased electors and correct unmapped household identifiers.
Civil society groups and political representatives pointed out that several prominent public personalities, including former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and veteran statesman L.K. Advani, had also appeared on preliminary verification rosters. The Chief Electoral Officer’s bureau clarified that draft discrepancy rolls are intentionally published for public inspection to ensure transparent claims and objections before final publication.
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