Gangtok, Sept. 3 -- Sikkimese Moolniwasi Suraksha Sangh (SMSS) president Ratna Lal Sapkota has said that the organisation has neither won nor lost its case before the Supreme Court concerning the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Sikkim, while reiterating its demand for an earlier cut-off date for the revision exercise.

Addressing a press conference, Sapkota said the organisation supports the SIR process in principle and had, in fact, been demanding such an exercise in Sikkim for several years. However, he said the SMSS objected to 2002 being used as the reference year and had sought an earlier legally acceptable date.

"Our opposition was never to SIR itself. We welcomed the process, but wanted the base year to be t...