The Election Commission has filed an additional affidavit in the Supreme Court, alleging that the INDIA bloc is deliberately building false narratives regarding the intensive electoral roll revision in Bihar. The EC refuted claims of 65 lakh voter disenfranchisement, stating that the exclusion of names from draft rolls does not amount to deletion
The Election Commission filed an additional affidavit in the Supreme Court on matters related to electoral roll revision in Bihar. The poll body alleged that the Opposition was deliberately building false narratives to malign the image of the constitutional body.
The Commission filed an additional affidavit on matters related to Bihar SIR in the apex court on Saturday. While the INDIA bloc alleged the intensive electoral roll revision would lead to disenfranchisement of 65 lakh voters in poll-bound Bihar, the poll body accused the petitioners of deliberately misleading the court.
The Commission told the Court that the exclusion of a name from the draft electoral roll does not amount to the deletion of an individual from the electoral rolls. "On account of human involvement in the execution of this exercise of scale, there is always a possibility that an exclusion or inclusion might surface due to inadvertence or error," it said.
The EC said booth-level list of individuals whose enumeration forms were not received has been shared with political parties. It alleged that the petitioner's approach was consistent with its earlier...
The Election Commission has filed an additional affidavit in the Supreme Court, alleging that the INDIA bloc is deliberately building false narratives regarding the intensive electoral roll revisio...