Meet calls upon people to shun SIR exercise

Speakers astatine the gathering titled, ‘Challenges facing the Indian Constitution’, organised successful Tirupati connected Sunday appealed to the nationalist to articulation the tirade against Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls taken up by the Election Commission of India (ECI), claiming it arsenic an effort to thwart antiauthoritarian principles.

The gathering was attended by economical expert Parakala Prabhakar, who called upon the nationalist to shun SIR arsenic it was “solely aimed astatine removing votes from the elector list,” which, helium said, was portion of the “oppressive policies” of the NDA authorities astatine the Centre. He saw a ploy to region 16.5 crore voters from the database successful the adjacent future.

On the alteration of defender successful West Bengal, helium condemned the Centre’s deployment of 2.5 lakh constabulary forces successful the State for the elections, portion failing to nonstop capable forces to the trouble-torn Manipur.

Former MLCs K.S. Lakshman Rao and Jalli Wilson, erstwhile Minister Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao, Intellectual Forum president Chalasani Srinivasa Rao, CPI(M) State caput V. Srinivasa Rao and CPI State caput G. Eswaraiah besides recovered a looming menace to ideology nether the incumbent regime, and wanted radical to unite nether a communal umbrella to combat the “tyrannical rule.”