New Delhi: India’s Election Commission on Tuesday revealed the major discrepancies in Bihar’s electoral role with its controversial special intensive amendment (SIR). In the ongoing survey, EC said, 18 lakh deceased electoral, 26 lakh electors, which were transferred to separate constituencies, and 7 lakh electors, which were enrolled in two places.This pole came after the body justifying its head practice, which has been questioned by the Supreme Court and the opposition, saying that it was added to the correctness of elections “unqualified people from the electoral role” from the electoral role.“Sir exercise connects the purity of elections by excluding the disqualified persons from the electoral roll. The RP acts entitled to vote with Article 326 with Section 16 and 19 of the 1950 and Section 62 of the RP Act 1951, which includes some qualifications in relation to citizens. The EC said in an affidavit.He said, “Apart from the legal concerns mentioned here already, these documents are actually considered by the Commission for a limited purpose of identification, during the SIR process.”Responding to a petition against the June 24 order, on a petition against a nationwide head of the electoral roll starting with Bihar, the Election Commission said that, despite legal concerns, documents such as Aadhaar, Voter ID, and ration cards were already being used in a limited capacity for identity verification during SIR-2015 practice. “A bare rebellion of the calculation form issued under the Sir order suggests that the Aadhaar number can voluntarily be presented as a calculation by a person. Such information is used for the purpose of identification, according to Section 23 (4) of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, and the mango (other subsidy and other subsidy section 9,”On July 10, the Supreme Court directed the EC to treat Aadhaar, Voter ID and Ration Card in the form of recognized identity documents during its ongoing special intensive amendment (SIR) in Bihar, which is scheduled to hold elections later this year. The case has been slated for the next hearing on 28 July.
