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The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has asked the Election Commission of India (EC) to debar summoning voters for idiosyncratic hearings nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful cases listed arsenic ‘logical discrepancies’ (inconsistencies successful entries) and successful non-mapping cases wherever voters are capable to nutrient documents.
A KPCC delegation consisting of MLAs Mathew Kuzhalnadan, P.C. Vishnunadh and M. Vincent which met Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar present connected Saturday said that the SIR has snowballed into a harrowing and vexing acquisition for voters.
“The mode successful which the Absent/Shifted/Dead (ASD) list, non-mapping list, and logical discrepancy database are being generated and acted upon has placed a important fig of genuine voters astatine hazard of exclusion from the electoral rolls,” it said successful a practice to the EC.
The Congress has besides demanded that caller enrolments nether SIR beryllium allowed till February 14, and that facilities for enrolment and corrections should beryllium extended done panchayat and colony offices to assistance voters. The wide process, according to the Congress, should beryllium tuned towards ensuring that genuine voters are not subjected to procedural hardships.
After the meeting, Mr. Kuzhalnadan said that isolated from 24.08 lakh listed successful the ASD database and excluded from the draught roll, and 19.32 lakh radical listed arsenic non-mapped (meaning they could not beryllium linked to the 2002 SIR list), 18 lakh voters are included successful the ‘logical discrepancy’ list. “This means that the EC, which should beryllium encouraging caller enrolments successful the voters’ list, has alternatively pushed astir 60 lakh existing voters into uncertainty,” Mr. Kuzhalnadan alleged.
The KPCC delegation informed Mr. Kelkar that successful the existent authorities of SIR, a ample fig of eligible voters successful Kerala could look expulsion from the electoral rolls, Mr. Kuzhalnadan said.
The Congress leaders besides pointed retired that summoning voters for hearings citing ‘logical discrepancies’ successful the SIR entries was unfair since the EC oregon booth-level officers (BLO) themselves were liable for the errors creeping into the entries.
Further, the KPCC has besides criticised the rearrangement of polling stations which has resulted successful household members getting scattered crossed stations. This has further compounded the disorder and hardship for voters who person been connected the rolls for years, the KPCC said.
