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Political parties connected Saturday slammed the Election Commission of India for ignoring the repeated demands made by them to halt the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls till the section assemblage elections are implicit successful Kerala.
At a play reappraisal gathering chaired by Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar, they questioned the rationale of pushing booth-level officers (BLO) to conscionable aboriginal deadlines erstwhile the existent deadline prescribed by the ECI for the enumeration signifier was December 4. They besides drew attraction to problems faced by insufficiently trained booth-level officers (BLO) and the disorder experienced by voters successful filling up the SIR enumeration form, particularly the 3rd conception required to beryllium filled up by voters whose names are not determination successful the 2002 SIR list.
Former Minister M. Vijayakumar, representing the Communist Party of India (Marxist), accused the ECI of imposing the SIR connected the radical without immoderate humanitarian concern. Drawing the meeting’s attraction to the decease of Payyannur BLO Aneesh George, helium said that astatine slightest 5 BLOs person collapsed during their enactment and the responses of hundreds of BLOs person emerged since then.
Mr. Vijayakumar besides alleged that the request that linguistic minorities successful the State beryllium issued the forms successful their ain connection has not been met.
M.K. Rahman of the Congress reiterated the request that the SIR beryllium enactment disconnected by astatine slightest a month. “There is clip till December 4 for the enumeration and postulation of the forms. But BLOs are nether terrible unit to implicit the process early,” helium said. This has besides generated fearfulness successful the radical that they whitethorn beryllium near retired of the SIR process, helium added. Many BLOs are besides insufficiently trained, Mr. Rahman said.
Mohammed Shah, State caput of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), said the undue haste shown by the ECI successful pushing guardant with the SIR gives emergence to the suspicion that it wants to convey to the Supreme Court the content that the workout is progressing smoothly. BLOs are nether terrible unit and they look problems arising from insufficient training, helium said. Mr. Shah besides pointed retired that overseas electors are facing a hard concern with respect to the SIR. He urged Mr. Kelkar to urgently convene a gathering to allay their concerns.
The Communist Party of India (CPI), Kerala Congress, Kerala Congress (M), and the Revolutionary Socialist Party besides shared their concerns implicit the SIR.
J.R. Padmakumar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said that the absorption to the SIR was politically motivated. He alleged that attempts were connected to disrupt the SIR by utilizing work organisations. B. Gopalakrishnan urged the ECI to put extortion for BLOs who sojourn ‘party villages.’
