NEW DELHI: Supreme Court asked the Election Commission on Thursday to provide information on how many voters have been deleted on the grounds of “suspected citizenship” in the SIR drive.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi noted that only three categories of deletion of voters have been furnished by EC –…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the Election Commission has unilaterally deleted 54 lakh names from the draft electoral rolls during the special intensive revision (SIR) in the state by using AI tools devised by the BJP and misusing the powers of electoral registration officers (EROs). Addressing a press…
NEW DELHI: The draft electoral roll published in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat Friday under Phase-2 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise witnessed 97.3 lakh and 73.7 lakh deletions, respectively. Another 1.2 crore electors in each of the two states stand to receive notices for “logical discrepancies” detected in their enumeration forms.The TN electorate has…