NEW DELHI: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, when requested on Monday to share the variety of unlawful international immigrants deleted from the Bihar electoral rolls on account of the special intensive revision (SIR), didn’t elaborate on the determine, saying that the related knowledge subject was not out there with EC.“The 7.4 crore electors of Bihar have reposed confidence in EC with their full participation within the SIR train and EC reciprocates confidence in them… I enchantment to the individuals of Bihar to take part enthusiastically within the ensuing polls,” Kumar mentioned whereas asserting the Bihar ballot schedule.The CEC mentioned the info on unlawful foreigners faraway from the rolls for failure to supply proof of citizenship can be out there on the meeting constituency stage with electoral registration officers (EROs) or assistant EROs involved, given the “decentralised” nature of preparation of rolls. The ERO, he defined, is the ultimate authority on inclusion or exclusion of names. Kumar, nevertheless, mentioned the names deleted from the Bihar rolls – 65 lakh on the draft roll publication stage, and three.7 lakh extra on the remaining roll publication stage – had been discovered “ineligible” on account of causes like loss of life, having completely shifted, remaining untraced throughout enumeration, for being non-citizens, or having been enrolled at a number of locations.“All these lists have been shared, on the stage of the meeting constituency, the district stage, and state stage, and have been shared with the statistics,” the CEC mentioned. “That’s the reason, all these completely different lists that you’re speaking about aren’t on the stage of EC, however on the stage of the ERO, district election officer (DEO) and chief electoral officer (CEO),” he added.EC had given a break-up of the electors coated in several classes on the time of publication of draft roll, however didn’t have any separate class for these deleted on account of being non-citizens. Of the 65 lakh deletions, 22 lakh had been on account of being deceased, 7 lakh on account of being enrolled at a number of locations, and 36 lakh on account of getting completely shifted or not being discovered. Although the final class of 36 lakh voters is inclusive of international unlawful immigrants, presumably coated underneath the class “not discovered” or “untraced”, their actual quantity was not disclosed. In earlier press notes, EC had put the variety of “untraced/not discovered” voters at 1 lakh, when the general determine of lifeless, completely shifted, enrolled at a number of locations and untraced/not discovered was round 60 lakh.An additional 3.7 lakh voters had been eliminated on the time of ultimate publication of roll, however no breakup has been offered but on why they had been deleted.