INDIA bloc may move court over SIR: Digvijaya
Senior Congress leader
Digvijaya Singh
on Sunday said all constituents of
INDIA bloc
may knock the door of judiciary against the ongoing
Special Intensive Revision
(SIR) of electoral roll in Bihar if the Election Commission does not accept Opposition parties objections about the drive.
Singh accused the NDA government at the Centre of trying to erase the names of poor and marginalised voters from the electoral rolls through SIR ahead of the assembly polls in the state. "The SIR drive of the ECI is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise poor, tribal, young, flood-affected, and migrant voters in the upcoming
Bihar assembly elections
. All constituents of INDIA bloc may knock the door of judiciary against the ongoing SIR of the electoral roll in Bihar if the ECI does not accept the Opposition's objections about the drive.
Is it possible to conduct house-to-house verification of around eight crore voters within 25 days by the ECI in Bihar, he asked.
The SIR drive has been launched just a few months before the state polls, he said, adding, "The ECI should have taken the opinion of all political parties before launching this drive."
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