Kolkata: Economist Parakala Prabhakar on Saturday claimed that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls means that it is the government choosing the voters instead of the other way round.

He also alleged that the aim of the SIR is to weed out ‘those people’ who the government thinks should not have been in the country.

The SIR, which is being done in 12 states including West Bengal by the Election Commission, has “serious implications for the country’s constitutional values, constitutional spirit and constitutional morality,” Prabhakar said, while addressing a press conference organised by a group named ‘The Educationists’ Forum, West Bengal’, considered a pro-TMC forum.

“With SIR, it is the government choosing the voters instead of voters choosing the government,” he cl

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