At the MCD school in east Delhi’s Chilla village, the Booth Level Officer (BLO) says he has not received even a single Form-6 application to enroll new voters through the day . In New Moti Bagh, the BLO says he visited 42 houses over five hours and got four Form-6 applications. In Sarai Kale Khan village, the BLO waited at the local MCD school “from morning to around noon” with other BLOs, “but no one came” to get enrolled.

Even on the last day of the Election Commission’s special camps being held across Delhi to enrol voters left out of the rolls in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), BLOs mostly found themselves waiting for residents. The few that came forward, they said, were those who wanted help to resolve notices they were issued for not being able to link to the 2002 electoral roll.

Delhi had around 1.45 crore electors before the SIR began .…