New Delhi [India], December 9 (ANI): The lower house of Parliament is set to take up the issue of election reforms for discussion. This will include a discussion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise initiated by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in various states.
The opposition parties have been demanding a debate on SIR for months, with Congress alleging discrepancies in the voter list.
Congress MP and Leader of Opposition (LoP) Lok Sabha is likely to open the discussion in the Lok Sabha today. The Lok Sabha LoP has been a vocal critic of SIR alleging that the government is using the process to delete genuine voters.
On November 23 Rahul Gandhi said, "Under the guise of SIR, chaos has been unleashed across the country - the result? In three weeks, 16 BLOs ha

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