The Election Commission of India has dismissed apprehensions of “mass disenfranchisement” triggered by the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, telling the Supreme Court that such allegations are an attempt to “politicise” the exercise.
The successful completion of the SIR in Bihar was proof that accusations of the en masse deletion of voters were false and speculative, the EC submitted in the Supreme Court.
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“The exercise [SIR] is aimed at purification of electoral roll. The allegation of mass disenfranchisement levelled by petitioners is an attempt to politicise the exercise to serve vested political interests, and, as has been proven by the successful implementation of SIR in Bihar, untenable,” the EC maintained.
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