ECI Urged to Restore Old Voter IDs for All Excluded During SIR, Not Just In 7 States

The letter flags unequal treatment of voters who submitted Form 6 under earlier ECI instructions and calls for the reinstatement safeguards introduced for 7 states to be extended nationwide.

Two petitioners who have challenged the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the Supreme Court have urged the commission to allow all voters excluded from the draft rolls and placed on the Absent, Shifted, Dead and Duplicate (ASDD) categories to submit enumeration forms and have their old voter ID numbers restored.

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Petitioners Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri, in a letter dated November 10 addressed to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, refer to the ECI’s November 6 directive allowing voters excluded from draft electoral rolls in seven states to seek inclusion through enumeration forms instead of form 6….

https://thewire.in/rights/eci-urged-to-restore-old-voter-ids-for-all-excluded-during-sir-not-just-in-7-states

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