22 lakh dead voters now surfacing as they were not recorded in past: CEC on Bihar SIR

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday said the nearly 22 lakh electors identified as deceased in Bihar did not die recently but were perhaps not recorded in the past.

Responding to a question at a press conference, Kumar said during the previous normal revision of electoral rolls, enumeration forms were not handed out to every household.

Till people do not inform about deaths in their families, booth level officers have no means to know about such cases, he said.


"Therefore, 22 lakh electors had not died in the last six months, but these are those dead electors who have not been recorded in the past 20 years," Kumar said.

This "truth" is coming to the fore due to enumeration forms, he added.

Kumar also said that booth-level officers can commit mistakes while booth-level agents appointed by political parties can help "purify" electoral rolls.