Bengaluru, Oct. 29 -- A divergence has surfaced within the Karnataka Congress over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with Minister Satish Jarkiholi defending the exercise and the removal of nearly one crore names, while state Congress president B K Hariprasad has questioned the exclusion of voters categorised as absent.
The contrasting positions have brought into focus a key question for the Congress: whether the reduction in the electorate represents the removal of ineligible entries or whether eligible voters may have been left out during the revision.
Jarkiholi defended the Karnataka exercise, arguing that it was conducted properly following the Congress's protests and training of its workers. He said the party's...