New Delhi: Two election commissioners objected at least 14 times to decisions taken during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The report has given Opposition parties a new ammunition to attack Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar.
Because as per law, people have registered as voters and living here for quite a long time, and they have to be allowed to live, they want to make it a Hindu country, which is impossible,.
The government cannot, by way of SIR, remove their names from voters lists,” he said. He also referred to notices sent to former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, former Union Home Minister L K Advani and others, and said the EC and government should address the issue. He alleged that the two commissioners had described the addition of new voters and mass deletion of names as “unauthorised and illegal”. He also demanded the removal of the CEC and said Parliament should begin the process.
“The BJP government is playing a game with this SIR. So, they want to remove the Muslims from this country. That is their motive.
Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had recorded their objections over the past 10 months to decisions and orders that they said were taken without their knowledge, according to The Indian Express. Four of the 14 objections were recorded on a single day, according to the report. Joshi had objected in May to changing the statutory Form 6 through the SIR process. He said the form could not be changed without amedment to the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960. Sandhu agreed with his position on May 19. After the change was reported in July, Sandhu again wrote to officials on August 13.
In one instance, Sandhu said an action taken by the commission went against the written advice of the two commissioners and described it as “unauthorised and illegal”. He said the “unauthorised/illegal changes in Form-6 on the portal” had to be removed immediately so that eligible first-time voters could register “without any harassment”. The two commissioners separately wrote to Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan over changes in work allocation that they said affected oversight of the IT system handling electoral-roll data.
The objections dealt with new voter registrations, deletion and restoration of names, appeals in SIR cases and the handling of electoral-roll data. The issue went beyond internal notes.
