Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has alleged that around 1.27 crore Hindu voters are missing from the state’s electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), triggering a fresh political confrontation ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections.
Speaking at the Aaj Tak Panchayat programme, the Chief Minister claimed that the names of voters who appear in panchayat records are absent from the Election Commission’s rolls. He said the state government had submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission seeking clarification and the inclusion of eligible voters.
The Chief Minister broke the figure down into three parts: around 66 lakh voters registered in panchayat records, about 55 lakh beneficiaries of government welfare schemes, and roughly 4.5 lakh people in the 18-19 age group. He also questioned why the number of Muslim voters had risen during the revision while Hindu names had, in his claim, disappeared.
The allegation has drawn a sharp response. Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal criticised the Chief Minister on November 9, questioning the religion-based framing of the claim and the figures being cited. The exchange has turned a technical exercise in voter-list revision into a full-blown political row.
The numbers behind the dispute are these. Uttar Pradesh’s final electoral roll, published on April 10, 2026, recorded 13,39,84,792 electors — down from around 15.44 crore before the revision. The exercise saw more than 2.04 crore names deleted and about 84.28 lakh added. The Election Commission has not published religion-wise voter data, so the religion-specific figure cannot be independently verified from the published rolls.
The matter has also reached the courts. On October 30, the Supreme Court asked the Election Commission to examine allegations involving bulk submissions of Form 7 applications — the form used to object to a name on the rolls — and take corrective steps. The Commission’s counsel told the court that the bulk applications identified were false and had not been acted upon.
What happens next has a date. Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa has indicated that queries about the exercise will be addressed on November 17, after the publication of the draft electoral roll under the Special Summary Revision 2027.
For now, the row sits at the intersection of electoral administration and election politics. The figures cited are the Chief Minister’s claims, not established findings — but with Assembly elections due in 2027, the argument over who is on the voter list is unlikely to quieten soon.
