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The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise going connected successful 12 States and Union Territories is being undertaken successful "tearing hurry and poorly planned manner", the CPI(M) said connected Saturday (November 29, 2025), urging the Election Commission to halt the exercise.
In a connection issued here, the politburo of the CPI(M) said what was meant to beryllium a routine, transparent and citizen-friendly workout has turned into a "chaotic, arbitrary process that threatens some the integrity of the elector rolls and the information of those forced to undertake that work".
"The CPI(M) reiterates its beardown absorption to the mode successful which the Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls is being carried retired crossed the country," the Left enactment said.
It said the full workout is being conducted successful a "tearing hurry and poorly planned manner". "Booth Level Officers (BLOs) person been fixed intolerable deadlines to the implicit the door-to-door verification," it said.
The CPI(M) alleged that this haste has led to complaints astatine respective places of BLOs camping successful immoderate enactment offices and asking voters to sojourn them. "All these volition inevitably pb to wide exclusion and errors," it said.
The Left enactment said the immense unit that has befallen the BLOs has "already claimed galore lives". "They are moving nether crushing workloads, without capable remainder oregon safeguards. These are not accidental casualties — they are the nonstop result of an irresponsible and inhuman administrative process," it said.
The CPI(M) said it is besides "shocking" that the EC is allegedly not utilizing its ain duplicate-voter detection software, a instrumentality specifically created to guarantee accuracy and trim manual burdens.
"This raises superior concerns astir the existent intent and intent down the existent revision," it said.
"This is compounded by the information that some BLOs and mean voters who privation to upload forms are facing problems of net connectivity, unstable servers, and repeated method failures. For galore — particularly for marginalised sections and successful agrarian areas — uploading a elemental signifier has go an ordeal, efficaciously creating caller barriers to elector inclusion," it said.
The CPI(M) demanded that the EC should instantly halt this "flawed process" and "stop the disenfranchisement of a ample fig of people".
