Thiruvananthapuram: With crucial elections round the corner, the Kerala Legislative Assembly on Monday unanimously passed a resolution against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list, raising concerns over transparency and the fundamental right to vote.

Presenting the resolution, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said there is widespread concern about whether the SIR is, in effect, backdoor implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

“The politics of exclusion is visible in the voter list revision in Bihar. Unjustified removals from the voter list took place there. There is a widespread apprehension across the country that a similar process is being targeted at the national level,” he said. Show Full Article

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