During a discussion on electoral reforms in the Lok Sabha, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that till 2004, no political party had opposed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. This process is necessary to maintain clean voter lists and a healthy democracy. If the voter lists, which are the basis of elections, are not accurate and updated, we cannot expect transparency and fairness of the election process. Therefore, SIR of voter lists is necessary. Accordingly, the Election Commission has decided to conduct SIR in 2025.
While addressing the House, Amit Shah said that after 2004, now SIR is being done in 2025 and at present the government is of NDA. Till 2004, the SIR process was not opposed by any party because it is a process to keep the elections sacred. If the voter list, the basis on which elections are conducted in a democracy, is polluted, then how can the elections be clean? Special intensive revision of voter list is necessary from time to time, hence the Election Commission decided that SIR will be done in 2025.
He said that can the democracy of any country remain safe if infiltrators decide who will be the Prime Minister of that country and the Chief Minister of the state? A voter should not vote at more than one place. Names of people who have died should not be in the voter list. This is SIR, purification of voter list.
The Home Minister said that this hurts the political interests of some parties. I also have a kind of sympathy towards those parties, because the voters of the country do not vote. Some foreigners used to give, they will also go away.
He said opposition leader Rahul Gandhi burst an ‘atomic bomb’ in a press conference on November 5. In that ‘nuclear bomb’ he claimed that there are 501 voters in a single house in Haryana. On this, the Election Commission clarified that house number 265 is not a small house, but a joint residence of several families built on an ancestral plot of one acre. Each family has not been given separate house numbers, so their house number is written only as 265, and three generations of one of the families are living together. This number has been trending like this ever since the Congress government was elected in Haryana. These are neither fake houses nor fake voters.
He said that Congress claims that the names of some persons are registered at two different places in the voter list. It is unfair to blame people who register twice, as this is often the result of systemic problems.
He said that since 2010, the returning officer’s authority to remove duplicate entries has been abolished, due to which such discrepancies have arisen. In fact, there are many leaders whose names are recorded at more than one place. These are common mistakes caused by update rules. The purpose of SIR is to prevent such incidents, yet we are being accused of ‘vote theft’.
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