VOTER SPECIAL INTENSIVE REVISION SHOULD BE STOPPED IMMEDAITELY : CPI-ML NATIONAL GENERAL SECRETARY

3-JULY-ENG 17

RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

ARA----------------------------Addressing a press conference at the CPI-ML district office, Dipankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary, said that the Election Commission of India has started a ‘Special Intensive Revision’ of the voter list in Bihar, this is the process of NRC in Bihar. Due to this, the names of lakhs of people from the deprived community will be removed from the voter list.

The Election Commission has made such an announcement which has again brought back memories of the Emergency.

He said that today is 25 June, 50 years of the Emergency are being completed. Today the Election Commission has made such an announcement which has again brought back memories of the Emergency. Elections are to be held in Bihar and there are eight crore voters here. The Election Commission is not recognizing it. Therefore, from 25 June to 25 July, they will go door to door for a month and ask voters for proof of being a voter. Just like it happened during NRC in Assam. In Assam, it took a year, two rounds were conducted and then it was completed. Can a special intensive revision of eight crore voters in Bihar be completed in a month? This is not revision but voter ban. There is a preparation to snatch the voting rights of the voters of Bihar. This should be stopped immediately. The conditions being imposed on people born after 2 July 2004 to provide proof of both parents being citizens

It should be known that under the new guidelines of the Election Commission, conditions are being imposed on any person born between 1 July 1987 and 2 December 2004 to provide proof of one of his parents being an Indian citizen and on people born after 2 July 2004 to provide proof of both parents being citizens. This entire process has to be completed within a month. He said that now only two months are left for the announcement of elections. Why is this kind of exercise being done.