The Supreme Court hear about Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in poll-bound Bihar. The court accepted the petitioners’ request for an urgent listening to the matters, but refused to pause the exercise for now.
Multiple petitions filed in the Supreme Court, though the poll body revision of voter lists months before Assembly polls. The petitioners are Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Manoj Jha, poll watchdog Association for Democratic Reforms, rights frame People’s Union for Civil Liberties, activist Yogendra Yadav, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, and former MLA Mujahid Alam.
Special Intensive Revision Request Rejects by Supreme Court
The Special Intensive Revision aims to feature the names of eligible citizens in the voter list and eliminate ineligible voters. Recently, the Supreme Court refuses the interim stay on Bihar polls voter list revision.
The last such revision for Bihar done in 2003. The Election Commission has said multiple motives, which include fast urbanisation, common migration, young residents was eligible to vote, non-reporting of deaths, and the inclusion of names of foreign immigrants, have made this revision important.
BJP vs Opposition
The Congress has said the voter list revision by Supreme Court consist the risk of “willful exclusion” of citizens the use of state equipment. “Lakhs of union and country government officers will now control and dictate who has correct files and who does not, who gets to vote in the imminent Bihar elections and others. This carries a big risk of willful exclusion of voters using the power of the state machinery.