SIR by ECI is clandestine attempt by BJP to prepare National Register of Citizens, claims activist Shiv Sundar

“The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by the Election Commission of India (ECI) is against the tone of the Constitution, and has nary enactment successful existing laws,” claimed activistic and writer Shiv Sundar successful Vijayapura connected February 11.

“As per the Constitution and laws similar Representation of People’s Act, the Election Commission of India has nary powerfulness to verify the citizenship presumption of people. It is simply a judicial process that should beryllium decided by a tribunal. However, the ECI’s SIR is doing precisely that. What is baffling is that, till recently, ECI was claiming it was fixing errors successful the electoral rolls. But now, it has admitted earlier the Supreme Court that it is verifying citizenship done SIR,’’ helium said astatine a store connected SIR, organised by the May Sahitya Mela, Dalit Vidyarthi Parishat and Ladai publications.

“Till now, the ECI had maintained that the SIR was intended for electoral rotation revision, that included rectifying errors, removing names of dormant and displaced voters, and adding caller voters. But now, the ECI’s lawyers person admitted earlier the Supreme Court that they are verifying citizenship presumption of voters. This is successful usurpation of judgments successful immoderate past cases wherever SC stated that citizenship verification is the work of peculiar tribunals, and not the ECI,” helium said.

“It is successful the airy of these mendacious claims and disinformation, we accidental that successful the sanction of SIR, the Union Government is registering FIRs against each citizens,” helium said.

“SIR is simply a instrumentality for the authorities to question our citizenship and inquire america to beryllium our citizenship. It is hiding down a fewer documents to fishy each of america of being aliens, and insists that we beryllium our Indian citizenship. We person a beardown suspicion that SIR is lone a facade for the existent intentions of the government, which is to hole a National Register of Citizens.

“The Indian Constitution is an obstacle to the Fascist forces that are trying to crook the state into a Brahmin-Hindu corporatist state. Our Constitution is the biggest obstruction protecting secular, wide principles. That is why, the Fascist forces person hatched a conspiracy to subvert the Constitution.

“Already, determination has been an effort to instrumentality distant the employment rights of the mediocre and crook them into surviving corpses. Now, determination is simply a conspiracy to instrumentality distant the close to citizenship by taking distant the imaginable votes that the BJP volition not get. This is simply a large ploy to destruct ideology itself. With this caller process, citizens volition not beryllium killed, but their citizenship volition beryllium killed. This is simply a warfare being waged connected the indigenous people, SC/ST, OBCs, women, agrarian mediocre and the migrant workers.

“Earlier, erstwhile the BJP authorities tried to instrumentality NRC directly, they faced beardown opposition. But now, it is implementing NRC indirectly done the SIR. Some BJP leaders claimed that SIR is aimed astatine removing foreigners from elector lists. But successful Bihar, wherever 65 lakh radical were excluded from the elector list, it lone 2 foreigners were successful the elector list.

“If the SIR is carried retired successful each the States, an estimated 25 crore Indians volition beryllium deprived of citizenship.

“It seems that the lone solution is simply a wide question of the people, without governmental affiliation. We each request to unite and statesman a people’s question connected the exemplary of the state movement, and reverse this conspiracy.”

He claimed that ECI officers were issuing notices to voters to beryllium their citizenship based connected ‘flimsy reasons’ similar children and parent having an property spread of little than 15 years, grandma and grandchildren having an property spread of 40 years, parents having much than six children, proving the citizenship of parents and grandparents, proving paternity, and producing documents, similar passport and authorities employment certificates, that are hard to get for mediocre people.

ECI officers successful immoderate States, similar Karnataka, are not pursuing SC judgments that person said Aadhaar paper tin beryllium considered impervious of citizenship.

“Karnataka’s Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that the Congress does not presumption SIR arsenic a governmental issue. That is unfortunate,” helium said.

Anil Hosmani, S.M. Patil Ganihara, M.C. Mulla, Bhagavan Reddy, Rajashekar Yadahalli, Surekha Rajput, Prerana Koli, Srinath Poojari, and Yusuf Newara were among the participants astatine the store connected SIR.