Activist brings 2 EC-declared-dead Bihar voters before Supreme Court
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New Delhi: After the Election Commission declared two voters from Bihar dead, special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, political activist Yogendra Yadav on Tuesday produced the voters before the Supreme Court, The Telegraph reported.
Producing them before the SC bench of justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, Yadav said that India is witnessing the largest exercise of disenfranchisement in the history of the world.
Placing an argument, Yadav said that 65 lakh people’s names were deleted from the rolls in the state, which had never happened in the history of India.
“The figure [of excluded voters] is bound to cross one crore. This is not an issue of revision. Please see them. They are declared dead. They don’t appear. But they are alive. See them,” Yadav was quoted by The Telegraph.
However, the Supreme Court has demanded that the Election Commission furnish a response on a plea filed before the court to direct the Commission to disclose the details of the 65 lakh voters whose names were deleted from the draft electoral roll in the state after SIR.
Yadav argued that the process of vast exclusion of voters has begun, and it is much more than 65 lakhs. He said that it is not a failure of the implementation of SIR.
“…but because of the fact that wherever you implement SIR, the result will be the same. Presumption that Bihar’s voter list was inflated and needed correction was wrong,” he argued.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court observed that possession of an Aadhaar card or a voter ID is not actual proof of citizenship in the SIR exercise, agreeing with the Election Commission of India. The court also asked for more documents to prove the same, Deccan Herald reported.