Election Commission Special intensive amendment of electoral rolls (sir) In Bihar, “During important electoral periods, it is deliberately calculated to disintegrate Bihar’s mobile workforce”, Parliament member Manoj Jha said on Sunday that he had challenged the practice in the Supreme Court.
This comes when the EC has started controversial exercises, which are to update the voter lists by verifying existing entries and adding the months of new voters before the elections. In this process, including door-to-door verification, presenting address proof and filling the wide forms, facing opposition on the basis that he can disintegrate millions of voters.
The huge migrant population of Bihar, which “faces systematic exclusion through this malicious head process” returns home to vote, Jha told The Indian Express.
He said, “Migrant workers lack local address evidences, they cannot navigate complex-based processes from distant places, and remember the compressed timeline due to the commitments of the work. This time seems to be deliberately calculating the mobile workforce of Bihar during the important electoral period,” he said.
The SIR process “by making inaccessible obstacles for those citizens, which is the only ‘mistake’ economic migration, violating constitutional equality and universal franchise principles”, he said, “SIR appears to be a practice designed to exclude that is using new devices and using new devices of administrative powers”.
Development Civil Society Organizations such as Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and People’s Union for Civil Society Organizations have challenged the exercise. Under the practice, all voters must submit a calculation form, and after 2003 people registered after 2003 will have to provide documents to establish their citizenship additional.
The ECI order said in its order last month that in addition to documents like passport, birth certificate, SC/ST certificate, extracts of someone’s parents in Bihar’s election role, “ECI order said in its order last month.
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