electoral roll update exercise dangerous and bizarre: singhvi
New Delhi, July 13 -- Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi called the Special Intensive Review of Election Commission in Bihar "dangerous and bizarre" and claimed the exercise, in its original form, could have struck off about 2 crore (20 million) of the state's 4.9 crore (49 million) voters.
Addressing a press conference at Indira Bhavan, the Congress headquarters, on Saturday, Singhvi said EC's plan to consider voters who were added after 2003 as "suspects" was an "arbitrary and legally questionable move."
Singhvi was one of the legal counsels who opposed the EC's move.
The Congress leader said on Saturday that party is satisfied with the orders of the Supreme Court, wherein it asked the EC to accept the Aadhaar card, the voter card and the r...
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