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Dakshina Kannada portion of Communist Party of India (Marxist) connected Wednesday, urged the State authorities instrumentality peculiar steps truthful that nary national is near retired of the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the rolls being undertaken by the Election Commission of India.
A delegation led by CPI (M) District Secretary Muneer Katipalla submitted a memorandum successful this respect to Deputy Commissioner H. V. Darshan here. The enactment said the SIR volition commencement successful the State from June 30, and since the Election Commission is pursuing the highly hard method of self-certification of citizenship by voters and inclusion successful the elector list, it is indispensable to guarantee nary national is deprived of the voting right.
The entreaty has urged the Chief Minister to instrumentality immoderate important steps, including simplifying the rules for obtaining documents for those who are incapable to supply adjacent 1 of the 11 documents prescribed by the ECI and providing the documents quickly.
A connection present said the CPI(M) has taken successful rule basal that the ECI has nary close to behaviour SIR arsenic per assorted provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 and the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960. Yet, SIR is being conducted.
Many of the weaker sections including the poor, Dalits, Adivasis, minorities, migrant workers are facing the menace of being excluded from the elector database owed to this SIR rule. The Election Commission has implemented the “logical difference” criteria successful Karnataka, which has not been implemented successful immoderate different State but West Bengal. Spelling mistakes, property quality betwixt voters and parents, inter-caste, inter-religious marriages, and those suffering from kid matrimony whitethorn person to look immense problems owed to logical differences.
In this context, the Party has demanded successful the petition that definite circumstantial steps beryllium taken to guarantee the rights of voters. District Committee members Sunil Kumar Bajal, Vasantha Achari, B. M. Bhat, Sukumar Thokkotu, Sadashiva Das, J. Balakrishna Shetty and Yogish Jappinamogaru were present.
