New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of making repeated corrections to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process after wrongly excluding voters from electoral rolls, describing the exercise as a "new form of vote theft" and demanding the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

Reacting to the Election Commission's fresh directives allowing voters marked under the Absent, Shifted, Dead and Duplicate (ASDD) category to seek inclusion in the final electoral rolls in seven states and Union Territories, Ramesh alleged that the latest order acknowledged that genuine voters had been wrongly excluded.

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