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A protestation against Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls volition beryllium organised astatine Ambedkar Circle successful Bidar connected Saturday astatine 11 a.m., Eddelu Karnataka territory coordinator Omprakash Rotte said connected Wednesday.
Addressing a property league astatine the District Press Club successful Bidar, Mr. Rotte said that arsenic galore arsenic 39 organisations representing number communities, Dalit groups, backward classes and progressive organisations volition enactment successful the agitation.
After the protest, participants volition march to the bureau of the Assistant Commissioner and taxable a memorandum addressed to the President and the Chief Minister.
He said that an confederation of secular parties and people’s organisations has called for a State-wide Karnataka Pratirodha protestation against the SIR process.
“The archetypal signifier of protests volition beryllium held successful each territory office crossed the State with the message: ‘This is neither Bihar nor Bengal, but Basavanna’s Karnataka’,” helium said.
Stating that the Centre and the Election Commission are attempting to deprive crores of radical of their voting rights done the SIR process, Mr. Rotte claimed that astir 6.5 crore names person been deleted from electoral rolls successful 13 States wherever the workout has already been undertaken.
“Most of them are genuine voters,” helium claimed.
While clarifying that cipher opposed revision of elector lists, helium criticised what helium described arsenic a “democracy-threatening process” successful which voters are being treated arsenic suspects and removed from the rolls connected insignificant method grounds.
Advisory committee subordinate Mohammed Nizamuddin said that successful Bihar, thousands of radical person been denied voting rights nether the pretext of “logical discrepancy” contempt possessing valid documents.
He said that joined women, nomadic communities, tribals, Dalits, agrarian mediocre and minorities are among those the astir affected.
Professor Vittal Das Pyage said that the existent nonsubjective of the SIR process is not to place infiltrators but to politically people communities supporting Opposition parties.
He claimed that it is “as unsafe arsenic the CAA and NRC exercises”.
Dalit Sangharsh Samiti State organising convener Maruti Baudde said that the Karnataka Pratirodha question volition nonstop retired a connection that Karnataka, the onshore of the Sharanas, Sufis and saints, volition not judge what helium called anti-people policies.
RPI (Ambedkar) State coordinator Mahesh Goranalkar described the question arsenic a antiauthoritarian conflict to support the voting and law rights of citizens and appealed to radical to enactment it.
Lingayat person Basavakumar Patil, KPCC State wide caput Abdul Mannan Seth, Karnataka Rashtra Samiti territory president Hanamant Matte, AAP territory president Siddappa Phulari and SDPI territory wide caput Mohammed Mohsin besides addressed the property conference.
