India, Oct. 23 -- The Punjab Assembly on Friday unanimously passed an official resolution seeking an independent inquiry into alleged electoral irregularities and the functioning of the Election Commission under Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

Taking part in the discussion on the resolution on Day 2 of the Assembly session, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann lashed out at the BJP over alleged vote 'loot', terming it dangerous for democracy, and demanded the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Mann claimed that names of 14 crore voters had been deleted from the electoral rolls nationwide under the garb of SIR, accusing the BJP of manipulating electoral rolls in the name of the Election Commission by...