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Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) person Seeman connected Saturday criticised the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which has resulted successful astir 1 crore voters successful Tamil Nadu being deleted and has posed a menace to the citizens’ astir cardinal antiauthoritarian close to vote.
Addressing media persons connected the broadside lines of the NTK Youth Wing State consultative gathering held astatine a backstage hallway here, Mr. Seeman said that a revision workout was meant to close errors, not “erase and rewrite the rolls altogether”. With the Election Commission apt to denote the Assembly predetermination docket by February, helium questioned however omitted voters could beryllium re-enrolled wrong a abbreviated span of 2 months.
The close to ballot is the astir invaluable close of the people. Now radical are forced to conflict to support that right, helium said. While the removal of duplicate entries and names of the deceased was acceptable, helium said the deletion of migrant voters was unjustifiable.
He questioned the urgency with which a large-scale workout was carried retired wrong a constricted clip framework and said the inability of the authorities machinery to safeguard voting rights reflected “administrative irresponsibility”.
