Dimple Yadav questions CEC'sresponsibility over SIR 'anomalies'
LUCKNOW, Oct. 23 -- The Samajwadi Party on Thursday trained its guns on the chief election commissioner, questioning why the top election official should not take moral responsibility for alleged serious irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across Uttar Pradesh, even as action was taken against officials in Pilibhit.
Party MP Dimple Yadav said if employees could face action for negligence linked to the SIR process at the assembly level in Pilibhit, the CEC must also own up to the larger irregularities reported across the state. "Morality demands that responsible people resign, and those found guilty should be sent to jail," she said in a post on X on Thursday.
SP state secretary KK Srivastava underlined that the party first raised the Pilibhit issue and submitted a memorandum to the chief electoral officer of UP. The memorandum, he said, pointed out several anomalies, including a case where the EPIC number of one voter was showing details of another person.
"The SP is already active regarding anomalies in the voters' list across the state and till now we have complained about more than 3 lakh duplicate voters across the state," Srivastava said.
He added that the party had also flagged issues such as irrelevant prefixes and suffixes in voters' names. "Hundreds of complaints and numerous memorandums regarding these issues have been submitted to the EC.
The action taken against two officials by the EC is not very significant as many EROs are engaged in similar malpractices," he added.
The party's remarks came after the Election Commission took action against two officials in Pilibhit over irregularities related to the SIR process. The SP maintained that the action is inadequate given the scale of alleged anomalies it had highlighted statewide....
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