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- CPI(ML) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya has urged the INDIA bloc to adopt a unified national position on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, saying Opposition parties have so far responded only State by State.
- He also expressed concern that an INDIA bloc meeting announced by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for August 8 in Hyderabad has not taken place despite a June 8 decision to meet within two months.
- Bhattacharya said the SIR has led to mass exclusions of voters in Bihar, West Bengal and reportedly Uttar Pradesh, and warned that such mass disenfranchisement makes electoral outcomes hard to predict.
- He added that his party will contest the 2027 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab, ideally within the INDIA bloc or the Left bloc, failing which on its own.
What to watch next
- Whether the INDIA bloc holds the delayed meeting and adopts a common SIR position
- How the bloc responds to reported voter exclusions in Uttar Pradesh and other States ahead of the 2027 polls
- Whether CPI(ML) Liberation contests within the INDIA bloc, the Left bloc, or independently in U.P., Uttarakhand and Punjab
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“August 8 has come and gone, but the meeting has not happened. We have raised it with the Congress. There are several issues on which the INDIA bloc needs to take a unified position”
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…INDIA bloc had last met in Delhi, it was decided that another meeting would be held within two months. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had announced that the meeting would take place on August 8 in Hyderabad. “ August 8 has come and gone, but the meeting has not happened. We have raised it with the Congress. There are several issues on which the INDIA bloc needs to take a unified position ,” Mr. Bhattacharya said. The SIR is among the primary issues on which the INDIA bloc needs to take a collective stance, Mr. Bhattacharya said. “So far, every State and the Opposition have responded to the SIR challenge…
“So far, every State and the Opposition have responded to the SIR challenge in their own way. Now we have the all-India picture emerging; it is high time that we take a national view and evolve a collective response”
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…several issues on which the INDIA bloc needs to take a unified position,” Mr. Bhattacharya said. The SIR is among the primary issues on which the INDIA bloc needs to take a collective stance, Mr. Bhattacharya said. “ So far, every State and the Opposition have responded to the SIR challenge in their own way. Now we have the all-India picture emerging; it is high time that we take a national view and evolve a collective response ,” he said. Upcoming polls This has become crucial, he said, in view of the upcoming polls in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Manipur and Goa in 2027. In both Bihar and West Bengal, Mr.…
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