Hamirpur (HP), Nov. 5 -- The Himachal Pradesh BJP on Wednesday defended the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, saying the exercise was aimed at ensuring that only genuine voters were included in the lists.
Carrying banners and party flags in their hands, thousands of BJP volunteers, mainly women, today took part in a mega padayatra in support of SIR and the anti-Congress party stand on this issue. The rally started from Kumar Palace and ended at Gandhi Chowk after passing through the district-levelazaar of Hamirpur.
The padyatris were led by Anurag Thakur, local MP and HP BJP chief, Rajeev Bindal, besides party MLAs and other district-level leaders of Hamirpur parliamentary constituency. They were raising slogans in favo...