New Delhi, May 31 -- Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said on Saturday that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls had produced "purest" and "most accurate electoral rolls in the world, dismissing Opposition's criticism of the exercise, days after the Supreme Court upheld its validity. Inaugurating the second National Conference of ECI Counsels at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management, Kumar said the SIR was being conducted by over 1.1 million booth level officers, assistant electoral registration officers and electoral registration officers. Kumar said the SIR had produced "the purest and most accurate electoral rolls in the world, ensuring that every eligible voter is on the list and every ineligible name has been removed". "Fair rolls lead to fair polls. That's the moment today and India is in it," he added while congratulating voters in Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal for their participation in the recently concluded elections. The remarks come days after a Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and justice Joymalya Bagchi held that the SIR exercise furthered the constitutional imperative of free and fair elections and that the measures adopted by the poll panel were legitimate, proportionate and accompanied by adequate procedural safeguards. So far, assembly elections have been conducted in six regions where SIR was held and millions of names were deleted. In Bengal, 9.1 million names were removed. Kumar said that the exercise was being carried out "under the close watch of more than 15 lakh (1.5 million) booth level agents, district and state presidents of all the national and state political parties," effectively arguing that the process had multi-party oversight built in at every level. He lauded these officials involved in preparing the electoral rolls....