File photo: Supreme Court of India Judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Launching a scathing attack on special intensive revision (SIR) that has resulted in large-scale deletion of names from voter lists across states, Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday said any process disenfranchising millions of Indian citizens was intrinsically arbitrary…
Owaisi warns Hyderabad could see protests bigger than Jantar Mantar over Form 7 NEW DELHI: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has alleged that BJP and Sangh Parivar members are attempting to get voters’ names deleted from electoral rolls by filing Form 7, and urged the Election Commission to act against those responsible.Owaisi said…
EC says SIR decisions taken unanimously by full commission NEW DELHI: Election Commission asserted Saturday that the decisions regarding special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were taken unanimously by chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and election commissioners S S Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.The statement came following the first meeting of the “full” Commission after…
SIR controversy: LJP(RV), RLM, TDP seek EC clarification to dispel public doubts Three NDA partners – Chirag Paswan’s LJP(RV), Upendra Kushwaha’s RLM, and Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP – Friday urged the Election Commission (EC) to explain its position on the political controversy surrounding the electoral process and implementation of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral…
Which forces want these names in voters list? Which parties benefited from it? Which party and family created a system keeping such names in the voters’ lists for decades? Why was SIR not held regularly all these decades? Nation wants answers: BL SANTOSH BJP general secretary (Organisation) NEW DELHI: Amid a row over the Election…
NEW DELHI: EC is likely to order special summary revision (SSR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound UP, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur in Oct, with Jan 1, 2027 as the qualifying date. However, it is unlikely to go for a nationwide SSR this year in view of SIR Phase 3 underway in 19 states/UTs and…
Cong MP Priyanka Gandhi targets EC over SIR, alleges ‘voter roll tampering’. Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday slammed the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that he should be “criminally prosecuted” if found responsible for “tampering with electoral rolls and deleting voters’ names.“Her remarks came a day after The Indian Express published a…
NEW DELHI: Former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi on Sunday criticised the Election Commission over its special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, claiming that the exercise had effectively removed around 14-15 crore people from the country’s voter lists.Speaking to news agency ANI, Quraishi urged the poll panel to disclose the number of voters deleted,…
