Bihar SIR: Deliberate try being made to unfold misinformation, says Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar

The Election Commission of India (ECI) held a press convention to handle points over the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and the controversy surrounding it.

Addressing the media, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar stated, “Under the Indian Constitution each Indian citizen who has reached the age of 18 years ought to vote.”

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“For ECI neither anybody is Opposition nor ruling social gathering. There is not any discrimination between events, all are the identical,” the CEC stated.

Regarding the involvement of political events within the SIR, he stated, “For the final 2 many years, all political events have been demanding corrections within the Electoral Rolls. And to handle this, the ECI has begun the Special Intensive Revision of Voter Rolls.”

“To take away errors within the Draft List all voters and political events are contributing,” he added.

Mr. Kumar stated that there have been a number of claims and objections given, and there’s a interval to file these claims and objections. “28370 claims and objections have been given. 15 days are left for submitting objections and claims. The ECI asks all political events, BLAs to submit claims and objections in these 15 days,” he stated.

“On the bottom stage, all BLOs, BLAs and voters are working collectively, and they’re additionally giving testimonials. But these testimonials are both not reaching the political events, or a deliberate try is being made to unfold misinformation,” the CEC stated. “When all voters in Bihar are standing with ECI, then no aspersions may be solid on the ballot physique or voters,” he added.

Regarding the demand for machine-readable voter rolls, Mr. Kumar stated, “The Supreme Court in 2019 stated that voter privateness may be breached. The ECI will not be afraid of false accusations. The ECI has been and can stand with voters of all communitues.”