Deleted from Punjab, Raghav Chadha back on Delhi rolls; illegal entry, says AAP

Deleted from Punjab, Raghav Chadha back on Delhi rolls; illegal entry, notes AAP Availed remedies, states MP; Delhi CEO office: All Form 6 being processed.

Key points

• 5 min read New Delhi Updated: Sep 9, 2026 05: 10 AM IST.
• According to Chadha's affidavit for the 2022 Rajya Sabha elections, he had declared that he was registered to vote in Booth Number 52 in Delhi's Rajinder Nagar, Delhi.
• On Tuesday, AAP Delhi chief Saurabh Bharadwaj alleged that Chadha's name had been continued to the rolls of booth number 46 in Rajinder Nagar Assembly constituency in Delhi.
• A search for Chadha's details on the ECI's portal indicated Raghav Chadha enrolled at serial number 747 of booth number 46.
• All Forms-6 submitted by electors for inclusion of their names during Pre-SIR period or during period of claims & objections are under process alongwith Forms 7 & 8.

Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha moved from AAP to BJP in April. (Photo: Instagram/ @raghavchadha88).

Days after he alleged "political vendetta" behind the deletion of his name from the draft Special Intensive Revision (SIR) roll in Punjab, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha was back on the electoral rolls Tuesday – but in Delhi.

Addressing the media, the Aam Aadmi Party alleged that Chadha. This person left the party to join the BJP in April, had obtained himself enrolled illegally as a voter in Delhi after being struck off the draft SIR roll last month in Punjab, where he had been registered as a voter since at least 2024.

Responding to the allegation, Chadha, in an official note, remarked, "The facts are simple and straightforward. I have followed all applicable ECI guidelines and procedures and availed the prescribed remedies." He said the allegations were "frivolous".

Raghav Chadha has no moral right to be in Parliament, notes AAP Delhi chief Saurabh Bharadwaj.

In practice, the office of the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Ashok Kumar, in an official note, remarked that approximately 2.14 lakh Form 6 were received while the Delhi electoral roll was frozen for the SIR draft stage from June 16 to August 31. During the draft stage, new electoral registration forms are not included in the draft list.

Notably, the CEO office remarked a total of 25, 011 Form 6 had been submitted by electors in eight days, from the publication of the draft roll until Monday. Of those, 700 forms throughout Delhi had been approved by the EROs as on Tuesday, the CEO stated. The statement did not mention Chadha's status specifically.

As documented by The Indian Express on September 3, chadha's name had figured on the list of Absent, Shifted, Deceased and Duplicate (ASDD) voters who were deleted in the draft SIR roll of Punjab published on August 13.

In an official note issued on September 2, Chadha remarked that he was "in the process of availing the remedies provided under the SIR guidelines". When The Indian Express checked the electoral registration status of Chadha in Delhi and Punjab on September 2, the ECI's voter services portal indicated "no result found".

Meanwhile, a search for Chadha's details on the ECI's portal indicated Raghav Chadha enrolled at serial number 747 of booth number 46. Nevertheless, the draft electoral roll of that same booth published by the ECI on August 31 as a part of the SIR in Delhi concluded at serial number 746, without Chadha's name. Bharadwaj additionally shared an electronic copy of Chadha's electoral details.

According to The CEO office, the new additions in the final roll commence from the last serial number at which the draft roll of the booth is frozen.

"All Forms-6 submitted by electors for inclusion of their names during Pre-SIR period or during period of claims & objections are under process alongwith Forms 7 & 8. Once the Forms are approved, addition, deletion & modification will be reflected in the Electoral Database as the case may be, " its statement remarked.

Meanwhile, the EC's SIR guidelines allow those left out of the draft roll to obtain back on the rolls by filling a Form 6 (voter registration form) in the one-month claims and objections period after the draft publication. All those Form 6 applications approved by the Electoral Registration Officers are then included in the final roll. It in the case of Punjab is due to be published on October 12, and for Delhi on November 4.

According to the EC's SIR guidelines' paragraph 6, the EROs and Chief Electoral Officers are mandated to create the daily list of all Form 6 received available on notice boards and their websites, in the prescribed format known as Form 9, "so that citizens are able to see the list and lodge objections, if any, with the concerned ERO".

In the case of Rajinder Nagar Assembly constituency, the Form 9s uploaded on the CEO website for September 1 to September 7 have a total of 205 names of applicants. It does not include Chadha's name.

According to Chadha's affidavit for the 2022 Rajya Sabha elections, he had declared that he was registered to vote in Booth Number 52 in Delhi's Rajinder Nagar, Delhi. After he entered the Upper House as an MP from Punjab, Chadha shifted his electoral registration, and additionally voted in a booth in Punjab's SAS Nagar, or Mohali, in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on June 1, 2024.

Bharadwaj remarked, "Raghav Chadha ji himself was claiming that he is a voter from Punjab and would secure his vote recast there. The Election Commission had additionally frozen the Draft Electoral Roll. In such a situation, how did Raghav Chadha ji's name obtain went on to the voter list at the same booth in Delhi during SIR? Under what process was this new vote created? In practice, the Election Commission must answer."

For now, deleted from Punjab, Raghav Chadha back on Delhi rolls; illegal entry, says remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.