New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- M A Baby, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), has petitioned the Election Commission of India (ECI) to immediately abandon the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging that the process is "chaotic, arbitrary and exclusionary" and poses a threat to the fundamental right to vote.
In a detailed representation addressed to the Chief Election Commissioner, Baby said that while periodic revision of electoral rolls is "a routine and essential democratic exercise," the current SIR departs "sharply from established law, past practice and constitutional principles.""Far from being a routine, transparent and citizen-friendly process, the present SIR has turned into a chaotic,...