India, Dec. 10 -- AGRA Deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak on Wednesday defended the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as a constitutional exercise by the Election Commission of India (ECI) intended to ensure transparency, while claiming that the opposition parties are resisting it because they fear losing support from illegal migrants.

He was on a visit to Firozabad and Mainpuri in Agra division, where he met party workers and reviewed the SIR process.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath had held similar meetings in Agra and Aligarh recently and asked party workers to cooperate with booth level officers (BLO) in finding people missing in the voter list and marking out those not eligible for the list.

"The aim of SIR is t...