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A delegation of the Jana Sena Party (JSP) comprising E. Sambasiva Pratap Kumar and R.M.V. Sumanth met Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi successful New Delhi connected Thursday (January 1, 2026) evening and requested them to initiate the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) astatine the earliest.
They expressed assurance that SIR would marque the electoral rolls comprehensive, inclusive, and escaped from errors and alteration each eligible citizen, peculiarly the first-time voters and those residing successful underserved oregon distant areas to enactment successful the antiauthoritarian process.
Further, the JSP leaders said the voting rights of migrant workers and municipality employees was of cardinal interest (to JSP), noting that these citizens were practically excluded from the electoral process of their hometowns. “The EC should instrumentality the pb successful designing distant voting mechanisms, either done secured EVMs successful designated centres oregon digitally controlled platforms to fto those citizens to workout their franchise without being physically contiguous successful their constituencies. Also, the EC should bring successful reforms similar forming a centralized nationalist elector database that helps successful preventing the duplication of votes crossed States, and deploying mobile enrolment units successful concern and IT hubs to bring migrant workers into the system,” they said.
The JSP leaders besides suggested that the EC should mandate minimum infrastructure standards for polling stations, summation the fig of polling stations successful municipality areas coupled with amended queue absorption systems, and research appointment-based oregon staggered voting slots that would drastically amended elector turnout and reconstruct religion successful the voting process.
Some different suggestions made by the JSP delegation was to follow the champion practices followed by the European Union and Estonia, Switzerland, USA, Australia and Brazil successful conducting elections efficiently, and to enactment successful spot a robust oversight and accountability mechanism.
