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The SIR Virodhi Jatyatita Pakshagalu-Janapara Sanghatanegala Okkuta has called for a State-wide protestation connected Saturday nether the banner Karnataka Pratirodha against the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Addressing a property league successful Kalaburagi connected Thursday, Okkuta members Bheemaraya Tegalathippi, Mahantappa Sanghavi, Lakshman Mandalgera and Renuka Singhe said that the ongoing elector verification workout tin pb to the exclusion of a ample fig of eligible voters from electoral rolls.
Mr. Tegalathippi clarified that they are not opposed to revising elector lists oregon removing ineligible voters but are opposed to a “complicated and exclusionary” process that places an undue load connected mean citizens.
He claimed that voters are being asked to nutrient aggregate documents to found eligibility and that adjacent insignificant discrepancies successful names, addresses oregon dates tin effect successful deletion from elector rolls.
Mr. Mandalgera said that the process volition disproportionately impact joined women, migrant workers, Dalits, Adivasis, minorities and economically weaker sections of society.
Pointing retired that galore radical enactment distant from their autochthonal places, the organisers demanded a minimum six-month play for appeals, corrections and verification.
The Okkuta besides expressed interest implicit the reported usage of “logical discrepancy” bundle tools successful elector verification and sought greater transparency successful the mentation and revision of electoral rolls.
Among their cardinal demands are the withdrawal of the SIR process, nationalist scrutiny of draught elector lists done Gram Sabhas and Ward Sabhas and making electoral rolls disposable successful machine-readable formats to guarantee transparency successful additions and deletions.
The Okkuta members urged the State authorities to intervene to guarantee that nary eligible elector is denied the close to ballot owed to procedural difficulties oregon deficiency of documents.
They said that arsenic portion of the State-wide Karnataka Pratirodha campaign, protests and nationalist consciousness programmes volition beryllium held crossed Karnataka connected Saturday.
In Kalaburagi too, the Okkuta volition organise protestation demonstrations and consciousness thrust to pass citizens astir their voting rights and the imaginable interaction of the SIR workout connected mean voters.
