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- The Election Commission is conducting a Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls which has resulted in millions of notices regarding voter discrepancies.
- The Congress party alleges this process is disproportionately removing economically and socially disadvantaged citizens from the voter lists.
- Data cited by the party indicates over 139 million voter names have been deleted across various phases of the revision.
- The Election Commission maintains the initiative is intended to remove ineligible and duplicate entries from the electoral rolls after a long period of inactivity.
What to watch next
- Future phases of the Special Intensive Revision
- Election Commission response to specific allegations of voter deletion
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Jairam Ramesh
Congress general secretary in-charge of communications
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“Actually at work here is a Method Of Disenfranchising Indians.”
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…a critical post over the name of the late economist Bibek Debroy appearing in the list of voters being issued notices for discrepancies, Jairam Ramesh, the Congress general secretary in-charge of communications, said “ Actually at work here is a Method Of Disenfranchising Indians. ” Mr. Ramesh posted the words “Method Of Disenfranchising Indians” vertically, so that the first capital letters of the words together read, “MODI”. His remarks came a day after the Congress raised the issue of…
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