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Prakash Raj joins Bengaluru civil campaign against SIR on Sept 1
Actor Prakash Raj on Tuesday said civil society groups will hold an 'Election Commission Chalo' campaign in Bengaluru on September 1 to flag alleged flaws in the Special Summary Revision (SIR) of…
Actor Prakash Raj on Tuesday said civil society groups will hold an 'Election Commission Chalo' campaign in Bengaluru on September 1 to flag alleged flaws in the Special Summary Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The groups, including Eddelu Karnataka and Namma Mata Namma Hakku Vedike, plan to move court to halt the exercise.
Raj earlier claimed he was marked under the ADDSO category, though officials said his name was on the roll as of June 16. Advocate Vinay Sreenivasa alleged booth-level officers wrongly deleted genuine voters under ADDSO instead of asking them to submit Form 8. Jagruta Karnataka has sought six weeks for filing claims on the draft rolls.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The SIR is the Election Commission's periodic housekeeping of electoral rolls to remove duplicate or dead voters. Bengaluru's urban ward rolls have historically shown high ADDSO numbers because of frequent intra-city moves that voters fail to report. The core dispute is administrative: the EC's standard procedure treats a shifted voter as deleted and requires a fresh Form 6 application, while activists argue a simpler Form 8 correction should suffice. The September 1 protest and likely court petition will test whether the EC bends its own rules to restore names before the next election cycle. The Karnataka chief electoral officer's response to the six-week demand will be the first signal.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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