New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- The Congress on Friday accused the Election Commission of India of tacitly admitting that eligible voters had been wrongfully excluded during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with the poll panel issuing yet another set of instructions to provide voters left out of the draft rolls in seven states and union Territories an opportunity to secure their inclusion in the final lists.
Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh described the latest directive as yet another U-turn by the Election Commission, alleging that its repeated corrective measures had exposed serious flaws in the revision exercise and vindicated the Opposition's concerns over the exclusion of genuine ...