Bihar SIR: Daylight voter fraud by one other identify

In the meantime, persons are in a state of panic.

The poor are standing in queues to get certificates. Some are paying bribes to ‘prepare’ paperwork. The unhappy actuality is that almost 40 per cent of individuals in Bihar don’t possess any of the paperwork the ECI lists as legitimate proof.

So, what now?

One factor is definite: by 25 July, the ECI will proudly announce over 95 per cent compliance (or, who is aware of, perhaps 100 per cent?). However the true query is: After declaring success, will the ECI nonetheless demand paperwork? Will those that fail to submit paperwork be struck off the rolls? If that occurs, over a crore names could possibly be deleted — and that might imply chaos. Or will the Supreme Court docket step in and drive the ECI to scrap the order?

Even when Bihar will get a reprieve, the spectre of a largescale voter purge will nonetheless cling over the entire nation. Until the Supreme Court docket forces the ECI to scrap this loopy order, which threatens our constitutional dedication to common grownup franchise.