In seat Kejriwal lost by thin margin, nearly 40% names added before 2025 polls missing in SIR draft

Newslaundry · Sep 16, 2026

An analysis of the New Delhi constituency shows that voters added to the rolls in the two months before the February 2025 elections have been disproportionately removed in this year’s SIR draft. Of the 1,430 voters added in January 2025, 560 – nearly four in 10 – have been deleted. Of the 2,369 added in December 2024, 783, or roughly a third, have gone the same way. The constituency – from where AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal lost with a thin margin to BJP’s Pravesh Verma in 2025 – had 1,08,788 electors during the assembly elections. The SIR removed 37,315 of them, a deletion rate of about 34.3…