Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee has written a letter to CEC Gyanesh Kumar and expressed sturdy objection to the alleged severe procedural flaws in the voter record throughout SIR. The Chief Minister stated that due to the present course of, widespread residents are going through pointless issues and the names of many eligible voters are being wrongly faraway from the voter record, which is a violation of their constitutional rights.
Mamata Banerjee wrote in the letter that the voters to whom the listening to notices are being despatched have already been mapped from the voter record of the yr 2002 themselves or by way of their family. There is not any want to concern listening to discover in such instances. This isn’t solely creating confusion amongst the voters, however they’re additionally going through pointless psychological and administrative troubles.
Also, the groups working in the discipline concerning these notices are additionally going through opposition and resentment from the public, as a result of the voters are contemplating it as harassment with none fault of theirs.
The Chief Minister particularly drew consideration to two main shortcomings coming to mild throughout the SIR. The first downside is that in the listening to the voters are submitting all the crucial paperwork associated to their eligibility, however in lots of instances no acknowledgment or receipt of those paperwork is being given to them. Later when verification or subsequent listening to takes place, the similar paperwork are declared ‘not out there on document’ and on this foundation the names of voters are faraway from the record. Mamata Banerjee known as it a very unsuitable and unacceptable course of.
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He stated that not giving receipt of paperwork makes voters helpless and so they have to grow to be victims of administrative negligence. This whole course of has grow to be mechanical and primarily based on technical formalities, missing rational judgment. This is defeating the very objective of SIR, which is to purify and strengthen the voter record and never to exclude real and eligible voters.
The Chief Minister talked about the means of digitization of voter lists of 2002 as the second main flaw.
He stated previous, non-digitized voter information had been scanned and translated into English utilizing an AI instrument, which contained severe errors in info resembling title, age, gender, relationship and guardian’s title. Due to these errors, a lot of voters had been categorized as having ‘logical discrepancy’.
Mamata Banerjee additionally stated that in the final 23 years, many citizens had received their particulars corrected by way of Form-8, which had been accepted by the election authorities after due listening to and they’re included in the voter record of 2025. Despite this, now the Election Commission is asking the similar voters to show their identification and eligibility once more, which is totally arbitrary and unconstitutional.
The Chief Minister raised the query that if the course of was being taken again to 2002, did it imply that every one the amendments made in the final 20 years had been unlawful?
He stated errors like minor variations in title or age like ‘KR’ and ‘Kumar’ or ‘Shaikh’ and ‘SK’ could be resolved at the desk-prime stage, with out a listening to.
Banerjee appealed to the Election Commission to instantly concentrate to these points in order that the struggling of residents is ended, pointless strain isn’t placed on the administrative equipment, and democratic rights could be ensured.
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