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SC order on SIR corroborates fears, objections of electorate reflected in pleas: CPI(ML) Liberation
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....C order on SIR corroborates fears, objections of electorate reflected in pleas: CPI(ML) Liberation<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 10-7-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Patna, Jul 10 (PTI) The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation on Thursday said that the Supreme Court order on the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Bihar "corroborates the basic fears and objections of the electorate....
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...." reflected in the bunch of petitions that sought an interim stay on the Election Commission's exercise. A statement issued by the party's general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said, "The Supreme Court, in its order, has taken note of the fundamental constitutional and legal anomalies and improprieties underlying the EC's sudden SIR campaign in Bihar and also the logistical issues and inconveni....
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....ence being experienced by common voters of Bihar. In this sense, the SC order corroborates the basic fears and objections of the electorate reflected in the bunch of petitions being heard by the apex court." The apex court on Thursday allowed the EC to continue with its SIR of the electoral rolls in Bihar, calling it a "constitutional mandate". A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Ba....
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....gchi, however, questioned the timing of the move, besides offering its prima facie view that Aadhaar cards, voter-ID cards and ration cards could be considered during the exercise. Bhattacharya is one of the petitioners who moved the top court, seeking direction for stopping the EC's exercise. "The Supreme Court advise given to the EC to include Aadhaar, voter card and ration card in the accepta....
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....ble list of documents in the interest of justice voices the common demand of every voter on the ground. The SC hearing should also take note of two most basic worries expressed by the Bihar electorate on the basis of the actual experience of the first fifteen days of the SIR drive in Bihar. Most electors are complaining about non-receipt of any acknowledgement about the enumeration forms being sub....
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....mitted," Bhattacharya said. While the EC is citing numbers to claim smooth and rapid progress of the drive on the ground, most electors do not have the comfort of securing a record of submitting the enumeration forms, he added. Migrant workers, including those working abroad, and others currently out of the state for any emergency are finding it extremely difficult to submit enumeration forms an....
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....d hence remain particularly vulnerable to the danger of disenfranchisement and consequent threat to citizenship, Bhattacharya said. He said the other big concerns are the difficulties being encountered by the electors in obtaining domicile and caste certificates which can be used as supporting documents and the enormous discretionary power being granted to the EROs to decide on cases of forms wit....
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....hout documents on the basis of "local investigations". The number of electors unable to provide any document from the existing list of 11 documents is likely to run into tens of thousands in every constituency and leaving it to electoral registration officers (EROs) to decide on such a large numbers of cases without any transparency could pave the way for a whole lot of biased, arbitrary and inac....
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....curate deletions and inclusions in the final roll, he said. "The people of Bihar are becoming aware of the danger of disenfranchisement that looms large and are getting ready to fight hard to defend their hard-won constitutional right to vote. The widespread participation in and support for yesterday's 'chakka jam' in Bihar has shown us glimpses of the people's anxiety and anger around the 'voteb....
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....andi' drive and also their resolve to defend the constitutional guarantee of universal adult franchise with all their might," he said. PTI PKD ACD<BR> News - Press release - PIB....