New Delhi: The Election Commission of India has announced that Uttar Pradesh’s draft electoral roll will be released on November 17 instead of November 12, a delay of five days. The final roll for all 403 Assembly constituencies is due on January 4, 2027.The claims and objections period is also extended. Voters can now fill Form 6 to have names added, Form 7 to remove names or Form 8 for corrections in the rolls, from November 17 to December 16.Chief electoral officer Navdeep Rinwa said on Tuesday (November 10) that the EC had issued a revised timetable for the Special Summary Revision (SSR) of Assembly Electoral Rolls 2027; January 1, 2027 remains the qualifying date for deciding who is an eligible to vote.Under the original schedule, the draft roll was to come out on November 12, and claims and objections deadline was December 11.Although the draft roll has been pushed back, the EC has kept December 28 as the last date for settling claims and objections. Election officials will therefore have less time to go through applications before the final roll is published.Rinwa asked all district election officers to publicise the new dates widely through newspapers, electronic media and other channels.‘Names of 1.27 crore Hindu electorates don’t exist in the voters’ list of ECI’: AdityanathMeanwhile, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath has claimed that the names of 1.27 crore electorates belonging to the Hindu community have been deleted from the voters’ list in the state.“Ask Akhilesh Yadav to demand the rollback of SIR now. He will not do so because the number of Muslim voters has increased by 1.65% in Uttar Pradesh after SIR. And I have spoken about the situation of Hindu voters,” he said, speaking to a Hindi news channel in Ayodhya during Deepotsav.“That is why we have given our memorandum to the Election Commission, asking why this happened,” the chief minister said, adding, “I am speaking about those 1.27 crore Hindu voters who have their names in the electoral list of Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls, but their names do not exist in the voters’ list of ECI.”Also read: Adityanath Says 1.27 Crore Hindu Voters Missing from UP Rolls, Demands ECI InterventionFurther, Adityanath questioned, “How did it happen? Who was behind this? There are 66 lakh such voters; 55 lakh are those Hindu voters who are getting benefits of the government’s welfare schemes, but their names are missing from electoral rolls; and 4.5 lakh voters from the 18-19 age group are missing from the electoral rolls.”Reacting to the chief minister’s comments, Akhilesh has listed some demands in order to avoid “rigging” during elections.“Simple, straightforward demands regarding the election: Aadhaar cards should be linked to voting. Instead of paper or plastic, ‘metal cards’ should be made so they cannot be forged. Fingerprint or iris-based biometric identification should be adopted because no two people have the same biometrics, so the BJP will not be able to rig the vote,” the Samajwadi Party chief wrote on X.For our full coverage on the SIR and the issues it has brought to citizens, click here.