India, Oct. 15 -- A new joint platform comprising farmers, workers, women, youth among others, named People Against SIR, on Wednesday demanded an "outright rejection" of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, a day before a five-judge Independent Commission on SIR starts an in-camera hearing of voter testimonies in the Capital.

"There will be no support to 'fixing' SIR, instead we stand firmly together for an outright rejection and annulment of SIR," the platform, which was formed on Wednesday, said in a press statement issued from Surjeet Bhavan.

The Independent Commission, chaired by Justice Madan Lokur, is scheduled to hold the closed-door hearing on Thursday from 9am to 1.30pm at Jawahar Bhawan. It will hear grieva...