The India’s Electoral Commission (ECI) issued instructions for holding special intensive review (SIR) in Poll-bound Bihar. This means that election roles for Bihar will be prepared again. The move provoked a political drive, with the congress opposing it, saying that it dared the intentional exclusion of voters with the help of the state machinery. Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of the Western Bengal, calls the move ‘more dangerous than NRC (National Register of Citizens)’ and claims that her state, which goes to polls next year, was the right ‘target’. What is the review exercise? The Electoral Commission is empowered with “superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of the election roles, and the execution of elections to parliament and state lawyers” according to Article 324 (1) of the Constitution. The ECI may also at any time … a special review of the election role for any constituency or part of a constituency in such a way that it is fit, “according to section 21 (3) of the representation of the People Act, 1950. The review of roles can be performed ‘either intensive or summially or partially intensive and partly summons, as the (ECI), can regulate, “as the registration of the registration of electricity rules. 1960. In an intensive review, the election role is prepared again; India said that the summary revisions of election roles occur each year, and that a special summary is revised before each election in Lok Sabha and Government Meeting. If, and those registered after 2003, additionally must provide documentation that institutes their citizenship, according to the guidelines and schedule specified by the Commission. that the complete transparency in the process of election is set in the election roll. Said. The last intensive review for Bihar was performed by the commission in 2003. As of June 25, the Booth Level officials (Blos) do a home-to-house recording for verification during the intensive review. Last Intensive Revision – Must Proof of Citizenship. Excerpting of your parents’ name in the Bihar election role from 1 January 2003 “is considered a sufficient document in itself”, the ECI command says. opposed and said it holds the risk of intentional exclusion of voters using the state machinery. Inc. is opposed to the weakened special intensive review exercise that the ECI commanded for Bihar. ‘ In the statement, the leaders said that the EC through the review in Bihar and some other states undertakes that everything is not going well with the election roles in India. Their identity and residential documents verified, the group said. Maharashtra pointed out. Concern. They set up an explanation form to get your name on the voters list. For those born between July 1, 1987 and December 2, 2004, a new form of explanation must be submitted with the parents’ birth certificates to enroll their names in the voters list. The ECI says that parents’ birth certificates should be presented. What is the name of the name of the full enumeration? This is a document. ECI. Banerjee, a more dangerous than NRC ‘, said rural people would be left out due to the review. “And then your names of ‘borrowed’ voters will include increasing the list. That’s because you lose. Just because you lose your names of other states. It is more dangerous than NRC,” she said. The head of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) accused the BJP and the ECI of working in tandem and ‘Bengal and target its people’. “What about those born before 1987? How will poor people get documents? Do they do it to establish the NRC? What is their intention? You are aimed at people born between 1987 and 2004,” she asked. The INC is opposed to the weakened special intensive review exercise that the ECI ordered for Bihar. RJD -MP Manoj Jha said that the exercise will make voter entries very complicated. A person who works in Surat, who is a voter in Bihar, may have no documents such as a birth certificate. This will complicate matters. Therefore, we fear that it is an attempt to take voters out or add something from someone’s instructions. That’s what needs to be clarified by the EC, ‘Jha said. (With Pti inputs)
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