Tag: SIR

Overshadowing all other issues in Bengal polls SIR to be the single biggest issue

adminmainLeave a Comment on Overshadowing all other issues in Bengal polls SIR to be the single biggest issue

  Fanatics may be lapping up the deletion of 91 lakh voters in West Bengal in the name of SIR, with the hope that it would ensure electoral triumph of the Saffron Brigade, following some simple arithmetics, but they tend to forget that one of the fundamental principles of jurisprudence goes like this: It is […]

Read More

SIR should be process of inclusion in principle but reality says different: ECI Must introspect

adminmainLeave a Comment on SIR should be process of inclusion in principle but reality says different: ECI Must introspect

  In several states across India, twelve in total, including West Bengal the Election Commission has introduced the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Although projected as a special revision of electoral rolls, the process has triggered serious concerns regarding its legal foundation, ground-level execution and wider political consequences.To understand the origins of SIR, one must turn […]

Read More