India, March 11 -- The contentious issue of Special Intensive Revision or SIR precipitated heated exchanges between the government and the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday with Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge raising questions about the process and referring to it as "fraud" and Leader of the House JP Nadda retorting that opposition parties had no faith in the Election Commission.

Nadda also took a jibe at the West Bengal government, which has raised questions about SIR, alleging the "rule of law has gone for a ride" in the state.

As soon as the House convened, Kharge raised the SIR issue, and said the exercise was ostensibly meant to clean up the voter list but was allegedly fraught with multiple irregularities and ...