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Civil rights groups successful Rajasthan person demanded hold of the timeline for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by astatine slightest six months and removal of exclusionary conditions successful the exercise. A nationalist proceeding for the radical facing difficulties successful the SIR process was organised successful Jaipur connected Thursday (November 27, 2025).
The testimonies placed earlier a sheet during the nationalist proceeding showed that the radical were facing difficulties successful filling up and submission of SIR forms, the SIR was being utilized arsenic a instrumentality to evict susceptible radical from their homes, and the Booth Level Officers (BLOs) were cancelling forms for deficiency of entree to the 2002 voters’ lists.
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Former Chief Electoral Officer Sudhir Verma presided implicit the panel. The panellists included erstwhile civilian servants Meenakshi Hooja, Alka Kala, and Rajendra Bhanawat, erstwhile Rajasthan Administrative Service serviceman Shaukat Ali, Bharat Jodo Abhiyan’s nationalist caput Kamayani Swami, and People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)-Rajasthan president Bhanwar Meghwanshi.
About 200 participants from Dungarpur, Udaipur, Banswara, Beawar, Sirohi, Bhilwara, Ajmer, Alwar, Jaipur, Tonk and Rajsamand districts placed their testimonies earlier the panel. The verbal accounts of radical showed that large-scale elector exclusion was taking spot during the SIR, which had virtually go an “exercise successful disenfranchisement”.
A ample fig of voters who volition suffer their voting rights are from tribal areas successful confederate Rajasthan, wherever astir 56% of radical migrate to different States for enactment and are incapable to conscionable the BLOs. At respective places, the migrant labour colonies and Muslim-majority areas were facing wide deletion of names, according to the witnesses.
Mr. Meghwanshi said the existent plan of SIR was not to enrol voters but to exclude them from the electoral rolls, contrary to Article 326 of the Constitution. “The Supreme Court has intelligibly stated successful Lal Babu Hussain vs. ECI judgement of 1992 that the Election Commission cannot find the citizenship of an Indian citizen. Yet this process has efficaciously go a means of citizenship verification,” helium said.
The request to beryllium the beingness of names successful the 2002 voters’ database whitethorn pb to nonaccomplishment of voting rights for the women who alteration their names aft marriage, denotified and nomadic tribes, transgender persons, deserted and azygous women, enactment workers, and migrant workers from different States.
The panellists said the Aadhaar should beryllium accepted arsenic a afloat and valid papers and elector cards issued successful 1995 should beryllium considered valid. The draught voters’ lists should beryllium pasted publically and a due societal audit process should statesman from December 9, a solution adopted connected the decision of nationalist proceeding stated, portion calling upon the Election Commission to marque the SIR process inclusive.
