Polity · 24 Jul 2026
With reference to the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971 and its proposed 2026 amendment, which one of the following statements is correct?
Over 47 lakh voters - 8.48% of Karnataka's electorate - have been flagged under the ASDDO category during the ECI's ongoing Special Intensive Revision, with the draft roll due for publication on August 17.
Electoral roll revision and ECI procedure are recurring GS2 governance themes; the distinction between "flagged" and "deleted" is exactly the kind of procedural nuance UPSC tests to check conceptual understanding over headline recall.
ASDDO (Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate, Others) flags are not automatic deletions; they pass through a three-tier BLO-BLA-ERO verification chain, with the ERO taking the final decision before any name is removed.
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