Should ongoing SIR be junked and pre-SIR voter rolls restored
In Focus by The Hindu

Should ongoing SIR be junked and pre-SIR voter rolls restored

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 25, 20261 hr 8 min
  • Interview
  • Politics

From the beginning, civil society and section of political parties have questioned an exercise of such enormous scale, one that was presented as an effort to clean up the electoral rolls and identify suspected foreign nationals, but has already led to more than 13 crore names being deleted at the draft stage.Those concerns have now moved beyond the SIR, into the functioning of the Election Commission. A recent investigation report found that two of the three Election Commissioners raised formal objections 14 times in 10 months over decisions relating to electoral rolls and SIR, including the centralisation of the voter database...

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This is In Focus The Hindu's current affairs podcast. If you calculate the time and the number of boats and the boats and per boat it comes to 20 seconds per

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water. Even for a flight to enter the pooling booth and fly around the booth and come out It'll take more than 20 seconds. In the wake of SIR, after a service process is completed,

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There will be two types of people in the country. One with franchise, the other one without franchise. That means you are not part of the political society. When you cannot send citizens out nor can you exterminate the citizens, the second best

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