UP BJP in Panic Over 2.89 Cr Voter Deletions: Yogi Sets Target of 200 New Voters Per Booth

The political climate in Uttar Pradesh is hitting “code red” levels this week. As of Thursday, January 8, 2026, the BJP top brass is in damage-control mode after the Election Commission dropped a bombshell: nearly 2.89 crore voters have been purged from the state’s draft rolls.

The thing is, we’re talking about almost 19% of the electorate just… gone. Deceased, shifted, or “duplicate” entries. Or nothing. Let’s be real, with Assembly elections looming in 2027, seeing 3 crore potential votes vanish is enough to make any party president lose sleep. Those too.

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The “Booth Chalo” Log: Field Notes

It’s an ongoing situation where CM Yogi Adityanath and State President Pankaj Chaudhary have basically hit the panic button with a massive “Special Intensive Revision” (SIR) counter-strategy.

• The 200 Target: Every single booth leader has been given a direct order: find and enroll at least 200 new voters per polling booth. With 1.77 lakh booths, the math is wild—they’re trying to claw back over 3.5 crore voters.

• The “Delhi” Request: Here’s a funny bit: they’re specifically targeting UP natives working in Delhi. The logic? Delhi has no elections for the next five years, so the BJP wants them to “shift” their vote back home to UP for 2027.

• The 2003 Linkage: Adding a name isn’t easy anymore. New rules mean you have to prove a “family linkage” to the 2003 electoral roll. It’s a mess of paperwork designed to “purify” the list, but it’s making the ground workers’ lives a nightmare.

• The “G RAM G” Push: During the same high-level meeting, leaders were told to start shouting from the rooftops about the Viksit Bharat – G RAM G Act.

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What is the G RAM G Act? (The MGNREGA Killer)

[Table: The Shift in Rural Jobs]

And Here’s the Kicker…

The BJP is framing the G RAM G Act (Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission – Gramin) as a “corruption-free” upgrade that gives 25 extra days of work. The thing is, the opposition is calling it a “budget cap” that makes states pay more for a smaller pool of people.

Yogi Adityanath is calling it a “milestone,” but the timing of the voter deletions and the new labor law has the ground-level workers in a tizzy. They have until February 6 to fix the voter lists before the final roll is published in March. It’s an ongoing, high-stakes sprint where every Form 6 counts.

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