AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday accused voters in Bihar of being vulnerable to "abuse and extortion" simply because they fail to meet the Election Commission's "arbitrary" documentary evidence of citizenship for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) electoral rolls.
In a post on 'X', he asserted that the EC suddenly initiated the "intensive revision" of electoral rolls on the ahead of a crucial assembly election, changing goalposts later.
"It (EC) has shifted goalposts: first demanding documentation & then just asking for enumeration forms. Voters will be susceptible to abuse & extortion just because they don’t satisfy the ECI’s arbitrary list of documentary proof of citizenship," the Hyderabad MP said.
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The Congress and other INDIA bloc parties on Sunday said the EC should stop the SIR exercise underway in Bihar.
Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who addressed a press conference in Delhi on Sunday by the opposition party leaders, termed the exercise being carried out by the Election Commission a "citizenship test" and challenged its legality.
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