All six members of the family of Altamish Faraz Khan, a resident of Ward 61 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) have been served notice for hearing under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Four of them were served notices on grounds that they had mapped themselves as sons/daughters of someone who is claimed by six others as father.
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Mr. Khan and his brothers and sister appeared for the hearing as directed by their booth-level officer (BLO). “We realised that this was nothing but an arbitrary exercise, even though we had linked ourselves with our mother whose name was in the 2002 electoral roll,” Mr. Khan said.
Thousands of people have been served SIR notices because they have linked themselves with someone with “unusually high numbers of children”. West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Subhankar Sarkar, in an open letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, raised the issue of “unusually high numbers of children”.
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