Tejashwi Yadav seeks to puncture EC’s claims on progress in SIR

“In its tearing hurry to fulfill the 25 July deadline, the EC got here up with an commercial proclaiming that these unable to submit their paperwork may deposit their kinds, leaving the remaining issues for the claims/objections stage. However there was no official notification to this impact and the BLOs are confused,” claimed the chairman of the INDIA bloc’s coordination committee for the state meeting polls due later this yr.

Yadav, who spoke within the presence of various alliance companions, additionally mentioned, “We nonetheless maintain the view that SIR is an train aimed toward depriving, wrongfully, many current voters of their proper to franchise with the intention to profit the ruling NDA. Leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union minister Amit Shah and chief minister Nitish Kumar ought to be squarely blamed for this undemocratic transfer.”

Within the 2020 meeting polls, there have been a number of seats during which candidates of the Mahagathbandhan (INDIA bloc’s Bihar prototype) misplaced by margins of three,000 votes or much less. A bit of manipulation in voters’ lists can simply tilt the scales. If certainly the EC believes that the voters’ listing has been suspect thus far, it ought to declare final yr’s Lok Sabha elections as null and void, Yadav mentioned.

He scoffed on the declare of the BJP that the train was important to weed out “unlawful Bangladeshi immigrants and Rohingyas” from the voters’ listing.

“Within the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP-led coalition did exceedingly nicely. Even final yr, the NDA bagged 30 out of the state’s 40 seats. So the BJP ought to inform us whether or not it thinks the alleged infiltrators have been voting for Narendra Modi,” he added.