NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Tuesday told Supreme Court that scrutiny of citizenship during SIR of voter lists was only meant to ensure deletion of non-citizens from electoral rolls and did not extend to termination of citizenship or deportation. EC, through senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, told a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India on Sunday announced a revised schedule for the second phase of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of voter rolls for 12 states/UTs.The enumeration deadline has been extended to December 11, pushing it back from the earlier date of December 4. The final roll will now be published on…
Mamata Bnerjee (File-ANI) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the Election Commission (EC) of rushing through the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, terming the exercise “votebandi” and demanding its immediate suspension.Speaking to reporters in Siliguri, Banerjee likened the voter roll revision to demonetisation, alleging that the process was…