The Kerala Assembly on Monday unanimously passed a resolution raising strong concerns over the Election Commission of India’s move to conduct a special intensive revision (SIR) of the voter list, with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan warning that the exercise could be an attempt to push the National Register of Citizens (NRC) through the backdoor.

"The experience in Bihar shows that the SIR process resulted in unjust exclusions. The politics of exclusion is evident there, and there is widespread fear that the same strategy is being pursued nationally," Vijayan said, tabling the resolution.

He pointed out that while the constitutional validity of Bihar’s process is still pending before the Supreme Court, rushing through a similar exercise in states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal

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