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Tharoor Slams Electoral Revision As Travesty And Demands CEC Resignation
- •Congress MP Shashi Tharoor criticised the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, calling it a travesty of the electoral process.
- •Tharoor stated that the core issue is ensuring Indian citizens are not deprived of their constitutional right to vote.
- •The Congress party has reiterated its demand for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities.
- •Tharoor explained that the opposition protested to draw the attention of the Chief Justice of India to the gravity of these concerns.
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Congress is demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation due to alleged irregularities and a disastrous outcome in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which the party claims has arbitrarily removed many citizens' names and deprived them of their constitutional right to vote.
Explaining the opposition's demonstrations, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor stated that the party wanted to draw the Chief Justice of India's attention to the gravity and seriousness of the issues surrounding the flawed electoral process.
Critics and opposition leaders raised concerns that the SIR process unlawfully modified Form 6 to require unprecedented data and bypassed the consent of two out of the three Election Commissioners, leading critics to label the exercise a severe assault on Indian democracy.
