Lok Sabha will today resume discussion on election reforms. Yesterday, intervening in the discussion, Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said, Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the Electoral rolls were conducted several times during the Congress regime, but now the opposition is raising questions over the exercise.

He lauded the country’s voting structure saying that everyone got equal voting rights since Independence. He said, Narendra Modi government passed the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam which seeks to reserve one-third of the total number of seats for women in Lok Sabha, State Legislative Assemblies and Delhi Assembly.

Mr Meghwal said elections are not merely a political exercise, but a festival of democracy celebrated by crores of people who participate in it. He said the

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