Future polls must use pre-SIR voter list, say civil society groups, demanding a full rollback of the SIR

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Civil society groups in India are calling for future elections to use voter rolls from before the Special Intensive Revision and are demanding a full rollback of the exercise. Their demands also include the removal of the Chief Election Commissioner, an independent investigation into Election Commission decisions, and a public audit of the electoral roll.

The also demanded the removal of the CEC, an independent probe into the ECI’s decisions, and a public social audit of the electoral roll; “if free and fair polls are under threat, then what remains of democracy?” asks senior lawyer Kapil Sibal