diff --git a/hack/verify-golint.sh b/hack/verify-golint.sh
index e0dbef170879..803b370b09e6 100755
--- a/hack/verify-golint.sh
+++ b/hack/verify-golint.sh
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ excluded_packages=(
   'cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/hetzner/hcloud-go'
   'cluster-autoscaler/expander/grpcplugin/protos'
   'cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go'
-  'balancer' # FORK-CHANGE: since we don't use `balancer` component , no need to do any golint checks and block our PR tests
 )
 
 FIND_PACKAGES='go list ./... '