The Hindu·3 min read·hard
Forum for Electoral Integrity urges NHRC to probe alleged discriminatory voter deletions under ECI’s SIR exercise
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The Hindu Bureau
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The Forum for Electoral Integrity has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission to investigate the Election Commission of India's voter roll revision process. The group alleges that the exercise has disproportionately removed minority voters from the rolls.
A civil society coalition, the Forum for Electoral Integrity (FEI), has urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to intervene in what it describes as the arbitrary and discriminatory deletion of millions of names from electoral rolls during the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
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