The rhetoric of regime change and the romanticisation of Bangladesh’s uprising risk undermining the very democratic institutions that protesters claim to defend. India’s democracy needs accountability, not a politics that treats street mobilisation as a substitute for the ballot. The language of political protest in India is acquiring a troubling new vocabulary. What began.
Security has been tightened across central Delhi ahead of the INDIA bloc’s planned march towards the Supreme Court over alleged SIR irregularities. Traffic restrictions and diversions may affect around 30 locations.
Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor has questioned the Election Commission's functioning beyond electoral roll revisions and called for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign.
The controversy over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls raises legitimate questions. But political parties cannot demand transparent electoral rolls and simultaneously treat every attempt to verify them as an assault on democracy. The real test is whether the process allows errors to be identified, challenged and corrected. The right to protest is integral.
The Supreme Court on Monday made it clear that it had not approved any modified version of Form 6, used for enrolling new voters in electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray has demanded the abolition of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral voter list and the holding of elections through ballot papers.
Shillong: More than 90 per cent of hearings under Meghalaya’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls have been completed, with Booth Level Officers (BLOs) set to visit voters’ homes to collect documents in cases involving mapping discrepancies and gaps in electoral records, officials said on Wednesday. Meghalaya Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Dr B.D.R. Tiwari,.
The Election Commission has removed the additional declaration related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) from voter enrolment Form 6 in states and Union Territories where the electoral roll revision process has been completed.
Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said the Congress Working Committee (CWC) had identified several flaws in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and reiterated the three demands raised by the party.
New Delhi: Members of Left parties, including the CPI and CPI-M, gathered outside the Election Commission of India (ECI) office on Tuesday and demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Speaking to IANS, CPI-M leader Brinda Karat noted that nearly 13 crore citizens.
