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A New Column on Form 6: Prove Your Parents Were on the Roll

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The Election Commission of India's ECINET portal has begun requiring applicants for new voter registration to furnish details of their parents' status in the last Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, down to the polling booth number and serial number. The difficulty is procedural rather than technological: Form 6, the statutory application for inclusion in the electoral roll, forms part of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, and any change to it requires formal amendment and gazette notification by the Ministry of Law and Justice under the rule-making power in the Representation of the People Act, 1950. No such notification has been issued, and the downloadable version of Form 6 on the same portal does not carry the new declaration — confirming that the statutory form itself stands unamended while the online form asks for more. The context is a nationwide Special Intensive Revision that has been completed in 13 states and union territories since June 2025 and is underway in 19 more, and which has produced deletions of 5.58 crore names nationally, including about 27 lakh in West Bengal. The constitutional stake is Article 326, which founds elections on adult suffrage, and the question is whether an eligibility-adjacent documentary requirement can be introduced through an interface change.

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Q1. With reference to the statutory forms used for electoral registration in India, which one of the following statements is correct?

AForm 6 is prescribed by the Constitution and may be altered administratively by the Election Commission.
BForm 7 is used for the inclusion of a new elector and Form 6 for objection to an inclusion or for seeking deletion.
CSection 19 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 empowers the Central Government to make rules by notification in the Official Gazette.
DForm 6 is prescribed under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, framed under Section 28 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, which requires rules to be made by notification in the Official Gazette after consulting the Election Commission.
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POLITYApplicationMedium

Q2. An election portal begins requiring new registration applicants to furnish their parents' status in the last Special Intensive Revision, while the downloadable Form 6 on the same portal contains no such section. Which one of the following best states the legal difficulty?

AForm 6 is subordinate legislation, so altering it requires amendment of the 1960 Rules by gazette notification; an administrative change to a portal cannot add a statutory requirement, and the unamended printable form is itself evidence that no notification was issued.
BThe difficulty is purely technical, the two versions of the form merely needing to be synchronised on the portal.
CThere is no difficulty, since the Election Commission's powers under Article 324 extend to prescribing and amending statutory forms.
DThe requirement is invalid because Article 326 forbids the collection of any information concerning an applicant's family.
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POLITYAnalysisHard

Q3. Consider the following statements regarding electoral registration in India: 1. Article 326 provides that elections to the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies shall be on the basis of adult suffrage, every citizen aged 18 or above and not otherwise disqualified being entitled to be registered. 2. The Special Intensive Revision has resulted in about 5.58 crore deletions from the rolls nationally, including roughly 27 lakh electors in West Bengal. 3. Section 19 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 requires an applicant to establish that a parent was enrolled in a previous revision of the electoral roll. Which of the statements given above are correct?

A1 only
B1 and 2 only
C2 and 3 only
D1, 2 and 3
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