Hyderabad, Feb. 1 -- Senior Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan on Saturday, January 31, alleged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was being used as a tool to turn India into a Hindu Rashtra, warning that it would reduce Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis, Christians and other minorities to second-class citizens.

SIR threatens constitutional idea of citizenship: Bhushan

Addressing a seminar organised by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR), Telangana chapter, at the Medina Education Centre in Nampally, Bhushan said such exercises threatened the constitutional idea of citizenship.

Recalling past judicial interventions, Bhushan said that when the Chief Election Commissioner had undertaken similar ac...