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CPI nationalist secretariat subordinate K. Prakash Babu connected Saturday said the Union authorities is trying to determination towards dictatorship portion retaining democracy, and the Special Intensive Revision process is portion of that effort.
Mr Babu was speaking astatine a meet-the-press organised by the Press Club successful relation with the SBI Officers’ Association arsenic portion of the ongoing ‘Deshapporu’ programme.
“The Election Commission is adopting a circumstantial stance towards definite sections successful immoderate States. In BJP-ruled Assam, it has presently decided against implementing the SIR,” helium said.
He said this is simply a antiauthoritarian process designed to solidify dictatorship since much than 40 lakh radical successful Bihar were incapable to vote. “In Kerala, 5 lakh radical were excluded from the list. We are not opposed to implementing the SIR, but the contented is wherefore the twelvemonth 2002 is being utilized arsenic the criterion. Lakhs of expatriates would beryllium omitted done this process,” helium said.
He alleged that the Union authorities is attempting to determination guardant by destroying ideology and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) emerged successful this manner, “We spot the existent developments successful the state with anxiety. There is an ongoing effort to distort history. The Communist enactment and others fought against the British successful the state struggle, and galore became martyrs. However, our rulers are present saying that children should not survey the past of the state conflict successful which they had nary part.”
He said the payment activities implemented by the State authorities would beryllium a large talking constituent successful this election.
Responding to a question, helium said that the Sabarimala lawsuit is improbable to go a large contented against the authorities successful the election. “The authorities is moving guardant with beardown measures. The government’s basal connected the Sabarimala contented is that the information indispensable travel out. The CPI(M) State caput himself has said that the guilty, adjacent if they are apical leaders, volition not beryllium protected,” helium said.
