Hyderabad: BJP state president N Ramchander Rao accused Congress, BRS, and AIMIM parties opposing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of resorting to mud slinging for political gains and also fear of losing bogus votes in the purification of electoral rolls initiated by the Election Commission of India (ECI).“Three parties Congress, BRS, and MIM are misleading the public and spreading false information on SIR process. This process has been successfully carried out 12 times in the country so far. The SIR is conducted solely for registering new voters, deleting the names of deceased individuals, and modifying the details of those who have changed their addresses,” Ramchander Rao said at a press conference on Monday.He said that SIR was not a program launched personally by Prime Minister Narendra Modi or the central govt, but a continuous, constitutionally mandated process conducted by the ECI.“Why objections are being raised now on SIR, when multiple SIRs were conducted under the Congress regime between 1951 and 2002 without any issues. As a responsible opposition the BJP had welcomed the ECI‘s decision, but today, Congress and BRS are speaking in one voice to mislead the public through a conspiratorial campaign,” the BJP chief said.“It is laughable that some self-proclaimed intellectual Congress leaders are criticizing the SIR, claiming that the BJP won in Bengal because of it. Didn’t they remember SIR when the Congress-led UDF won in Kerala, where the same SIR process took place?” he said and emphasized that victory and defeat in politics is totally depended on peoples’ mandate.Ramchander Rao reminded that the SIR process is constitutional and is carried out in accordance with the rules of the Representation of the People Act. He noted that the Supreme Court itself had delivered a clear 124-page judgment, confirming that under Rule 21A, the Election Commission has full authority to delete ineligible votes.While expressing concern that along the country’s borders like Bihar and West Bengal, as well as in the Hyderabad Old City, illegal infiltrators like Rohingyas, Bangladeshis, and Pakistanis are obtaining fake Aadhaar cards and ration cards with the support of certain local political parties to register as voters, he said that it has come to their notice that there are up to 200 bogus votes in a single house in the Old City.The BJP chief said whether the CM Revanth Reddy lacks confidence in his own staff, given that the Congress govt is currently in power in the state. “There is a rule providing for a one-year prison sentence for submitting a false declaration has been in place for a long time,” he said.ends/
