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“Congress is not putting up an effectual Opposition to Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. There is an urgent request for a people’s question to request its cancellation,” Mavalli Shankar, Dalit Sangharsha Samiti leader, and thinker said successful Hubballi connected Sunday (May 17, 2026).
Speaking from the Naragund-Navalagund Raitha Bandaya Vedike astatine the May Sahitya Mela, Mr. Shankar said that it is clip to physique a people’s question astir the issue. “There is nary uncertainty near successful our minds that SIR is an anti-people, anti-poor exercise. The agitation against SIR cannot beryllium near to immoderate governmental party. It seems lone a people’s movements tin enarthrosis this responsibility. We request to marque the communal radical recognize the conspiracy down SIR. It is simply a unsafe workout that has the imaginable to destruct Indian ideology by undermining the rule of ‘One idiosyncratic 1 vote’,“ Mr. Shankar said.
“The Prime Minister has installed the Sengol connected 1 broadside of the Speaker’s spot successful the Parliament and determination is simply a transcript of the Constitution connected the different side. We should ponder implicit this. What does the Sengol correspond and what does the Constitution represent? It is simply a wide denotation that spiritual symbols are implicit riding connected our law system. We request to dispersed consciousness among the radical connected their choices. They should beryllium educated astir which of the 2 to choose- Sengol oregon the Constitution?,’’ Mr. Shankar said.
Later, a solution was unanimously adapted astatine the Mela to reason ECI SIR and request its cancellation. The solution was moved by writer K. Phaniraj.
“A systematic strategy has been devised done SIR to exclude circumstantial categories of eligible voters from the electoral rolls. A large-scale nationalist question should beryllium formed with students, women, younker and deprived classes. We request to request abolition of the unconstitutional SIR,’’ Prof. Phaniraj said.
CPI State Secretary K. Prakash said that the ECI had made it progressively hard for the mediocre and marginalised to participate and support their names successful the electoral rolls.
“It is existent that the Election Commission has been conducting SIR since 2002 and claiming that it was a earthy process. If that was the case, what was the request for SIR? What is the Constitutionality of the full process? The ECI is not giving due answers to specified questions. However, we person beardown suspicion that the SIR is aimed astatine excluding the mediocre and marginalised, women and minorities. This is thing but an effort to exclude astir 10 crore voters successful the 16 predetermination going States. But the ECI has not clarified our doubts. It has failed to supply a foolproof strategy to guarantee that those the deleted voters are included again. ECI has released a database of 11 documents, that are highly hard for the mediocre and marginalised to obtain. Those who bash not hold with the Constitution of India, the Republic, secularism, and the basal principles of the Constitution are implementing specified initiatives. It is intolerable to judge it’’, helium said.
Activist Noor Sridhar said that the consequences of SIR successful Bihar and West Bengal were for everyone to spot and that it was the work of everyone to guarantee it isn’t repeated successful different States. The lone mode towards that was to abolish ECI SIR. The radical of Karnataka should beryllium alert of this. Awareness should beryllium created done a cookware Karnataka anti-SIR agitation. Activist Sati Sundaresh said that the anti-SIR question should beryllium taken to each polling booth level. Resource persons S. S. Harlapura, Babajan Mudhol, Chandrashekhar Gorebal and others were present.
