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Political parties person raised interest astir the timing of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters’ database successful the State.
At a gathering of Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar with recognised governmental parties present connected Saturday, Communist Party of India (Marxist) person M. Vijayakumar said the SIR timing was not astatine each applicable arsenic enactment related to section assemblage polls was on. The SIR was a hurdle to the predetermination process.
He pointed retired that the enactment of governmental parties and booth-level agents (BLAs) nominated by the parties had been sought by the CEO’s office, but BLAs were afloat progressive successful the predetermination process.
Booth-level serviceman (BLOs) were uncovering the enumeration process tough. It was not imaginable for them to decorativeness the enumeration earlier the deadline of December 4.
Mr. Vijayakumar besides suggested that the enumeration signifier distributed to voters should not lone beryllium successful Malayalam but besides successful Kannada and Tamil successful areas wherever connection minorities lived.
Congress person M.K. Rahman alleged that successful the lack of due training, BLOs were not capable to pass precise accusation to the voters. No docket had been prepared for erstwhile precisely BLAs should travel BLOs.
The website for submitting details of overseas voters opened recently. However, this installation could lone beryllium utilized by those who had linked their telephone fig to the elector ID. Only a fewer overseas voters had done that.
Sathyan Mokeri of the Communist Party of India opined that the SIR based connected the 2002 elector database was politically motivated and impractical. Revision of the elector database was imaginable utilizing processes already successful place. The Kerala Assembly excessively had passed a unanimous solution seeking updation of elector rolls successful a just and transparent manner.
He asked however governmental parties and BLAs were expected to enactment the SIR erstwhile section assemblage polls were circular the corner. The ECI determination connected SIR was hasty and a hurdle to the behaviour of the section assemblage polls and should beryllium re-examined.
J.R. Padmakumar of the Bharatiya Janata Party said the SIR had been held earlier too, the past successful 2002. It was not called politically motivated then. Seeking an error-free elector database but opposing steps taken by the ECI to guarantee the aforesaid was impractical. The SIR should spell guardant truthful that those ineligible were removed from the elector list. Technical issues did beryllium related to BLO grooming oregon their nonaccomplishment to sojourn each location for due verification, helium said.
C.P. Cheriya Muhammad and Mohammed Shah of the Indian Union Muslim League spoke astir method problems related to SIR, peculiarly the request to nexus elector ID and mobile fig successful the lawsuit of overseas voters. Another contented was discrepancy betwixt details connected Aadhaar and elector ID.
The SIR stood for exclusion, not inclusion, they argued, saying radical were apprehensive astir the verification process that would follow. Not each idiosyncratic would beryllium capable to contiguous the forms sought successful the declaration, they pointed out.
Decisions taken astatine meetings with the CEO were not implemented astatine the BLO level, they added.
K. Jayakumar of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, Joy Abraham of the Kerala Congress, K. Anandhakumar of the Kerala Congress (M) besides spoke.
