India, Aug. 23 -- Congress leader P Chidambaram has criticised the Election Commission's ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, saying the exercise risks creating a new category of "non-voting citizens". Reacting to former diplomat Navdeep Suri's experience in Punjab, Chidambaram questioned how ordinary citizens would navigate the process if a former ambassador faced difficulty establishing his credentials.

Navdeep Suri, who served as India's ambassador to the UAE and Egypt and as High Commissioner to Australia, tweeted he was asked to provide additional documents after his current voter details could not be mapped to the 2003 electoral roll being used as the reference database in Punjab. He said he had submitted hi...