SPCSS-TN urges govt. to not include provision on eligibility based on doubt in SIR exercise in State

The State Platform for Common School System - Tamil Nadu (SPCSS-TN) has urged the State authorities to instrumentality enactment of the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) guidelines for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) that is to beryllium undertaken successful the State.

In a missive addressed to the Chief Secretary it said, “Ensure that the provision, that authorises the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) oregon Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (AERO) to suo moto inquire the eligibility of the projected elector whom the ERO oregon AERO doubts and notation the lawsuit of suspected overseas nationalist to the competent authorization nether the Citizenship Act, 1955, is not included successful the guidelines for SIR that is to beryllium undertaken successful the State of Tamil Nadu.”

The missive stated it raises questions connected the circumstantial proviso for the AERO to notation the idiosyncratic who is doubted arsenic overseas nationalist by the AERO to beryllium referred to the “competent authority” nether the Citizenship Act, 1955.

The missive pointed retired that competent authorization is not defined and asked wherefore the AERO is directed to study the idiosyncratic who is not enrolled. It besides posed further questions including “Will the deficiency of impervious that is demanded by the ECI automatically pb to uncertainty a idiosyncratic arsenic overseas national? Can anyone that the AERO doubts, beryllium referred to the Foreigners Tribunal? Under what authorization the ECI is framing a Rule that whitethorn pb to declaring a idiosyncratic ‘stateless’ conscionable due to the fact that she/he could not supply documents that the ECI requires to beryllium enrolled arsenic a voter,” it asked.