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Members of the Forum of Anti-SIR Parties and Organisations, a conjugation of governmental parties and progressive organisations opposed to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, staged a protestation march and objection extracurricular the Deputy Commissioner’s bureau successful Kalaburagi connected Saturday.
The protesters alleged that the ongoing SIR process was unconstitutional, anti-democratic and discriminatory towards susceptible sections of society. Raising slogans against the exercise, they claimed that the revision process treated citizens arsenic “suspects” and could deprive ample sections of radical of their voting rights.
In a memorandum submitted done the territory medication to the Election Commission of India (ECI), the forum contended that the SIR workout has disproportionately affected women, migrant workers, nomadic and tribal communities, Dalits, minorities and different marginalised groups. The protesters alleged that akin exercises conducted successful different States had resulted successful the deletion of a ample fig of eligible voters from electoral rolls.
“We are not opposed to the revision of electoral rolls per se, but objected to a flawed and non-transparent implementation of the SIR process. We request that the ECI refrain from utilizing the ‘logical discrepancy’ method for identifying voters, arguing that insignificant discrepancies successful spelling oregon dates should not go grounds for disenfranchisement,” activistic Bhimrao T.T. said during the protest.
Among the cardinal demands raised by the forum were work of draught electoral rolls successful a computer-readable format, mandatory nationalist scrutiny of draught rolls done gram sabhas and ward meetings, a longer timeline for verification and appeals, and peculiar provisions to guarantee that women, migrants, students, tribal communities, Dalits, minorities and different susceptible groups are not excluded from the electoral process.
“If these antiauthoritarian safeguards were not incorporated, we volition intensify our agitation crossed Karnataka. We guarantee afloat practice successful the electoral rotation revision process if the suggested changes were adopted,” Sunil Manpade, different person of the forum, said.
Those who participated successful the protestation included Mailari Doddamani, Renuka Singe, Shaheenaz Akhtar, Nilambika, Chandrika Parameshwar, Shekhar Singh, Saleem Ahmed, Anuradha Ninne, Balaji Kamble, Sangeeta, Vaishali, Anita Kuruba, Sangamesh Kalaburagi and Hanamant Manpade.
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