The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has generated one of the most important constitutional debates in contemporary India. While the Election Commission of India has described the exercise as an effort to improve the accuracy of electoral rolls, the public discussion has moved far beyond electoral administration. It has reopened fundamental questions concerning
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Bhopal, Jun 11 (PTI) A former Madhya Pradesh assembly official on Thursday claimed that although Congress nominee Meenakshi Natarajan’s Rajya Sabha poll nomination was rejected on charges of hiding information, she was not required to make any such disclosure as no FIR or chargesheet had been filed against her. Talking to PTI Videos, former principal
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New Delhi, May 27 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the power of the of India to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of electoral rolls, saying that it “advances the constitutional imperative of free and fair elections”. It can’t be said that the poll panel acted outside statutory powers by exercising SIR,
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New Delhi, May 14 (PTI) The Election Commission on Thursday announced the roll out of the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) of electoral rolls in 16 states and three union territories in a phased manner beginning May 30. The states and UTs where the SIR will be carried out are Delhi, Odisha, Mizoram, Sikkim, Manipur, Uttarakhand,
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