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All six members of the household of Altamish Faraz Khan, a nonmigratory of Ward 61 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) person been served announcement for proceeding nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Four of them were served notices connected grounds that they had mapped themselves arsenic sons/daughters of idiosyncratic who is claimed by six others arsenic father.
Mr. Khan and his brothers and sister appeared for the proceeding arsenic directed by their booth-level serviceman (BLO). “We realised that this was thing but an arbitrary exercise, adjacent though we had linked ourselves with our parent whose sanction was successful the 2002 electoral roll,” Mr. Khan said.
Thousands of radical person been served SIR notices due to the fact that they person linked themselves with idiosyncratic with “unusually precocious numbers of children”. West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Subhankar Sarkar, successful an unfastened missive to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, raised the contented of “unusually precocious numbers of children”.
‘Unusually precocious fig of children’
Mr. Sarkar cited the Election Commission of India (EC) affidavit filed successful the Supreme Court connected January 18 to constituent retired that the fig of electors with six oregon much electors linked to them arsenic children stood astatine 2,06,056. Whereas, the fig of electors with 10 electors linked to them arsenic children was lone 8,682.
“It tin beryllium seen from the array supra that the fig of suspected electors identified connected the ground of the fig of children linked with the acrophobic electors varies sharply, depending connected the threshold chosen by the ECI. Had the threshold of “unusually precocious numbers of children” been 10, the fig of suspected electors issued proceeding notices would person been 8,682 only,” the Congress person wrote successful the letter.
The Trinamool Congress excessively has raised the contented that electors person been fixed notices to look earlier the EC for proceeding connected grounds that they person linked themselves to idiosyncratic with “unusually precocious numbers of children”.
‘EC’s age-threshold arbitrary’
“We consciousness that the ECI has arbitrarily chosen age-thresholds to maximise the fig of suspected electors connected the ground of alleged “logical discrepancies” criteria based connected property narration mismatches, aggregate claims of parentage, spelling inconsistencies etc,” Mr. Sarkar wrote successful the letter.
He pointed retired that that specified an inaugural of the EC had led to much than 1 crore electors, already included successful the draught electoral roll, receiving proceeding notices.
After the completion of the archetypal signifier of SIR, astir 58 lakh names were deleted successful West Bengal, bringing the fig of electors successful the State to 7.08 crore from 7.66 crore. There were convulsive protests implicit issuance of notices to electors nether the class of “logical discrepancies”. About 1.36 crore specified notices of logical discrepancies person been issued.
Referring to a January 19 bid of the Supreme Court which introduced respective modifications to ”logical discrepancies”, the Congress person said that they had not been implemented to date.
The Congress person demanded suspension of hearings connected notices served connected the ground of alleged “logical discrepancies” and sought an all-party gathering earlier proceeding further.
