Pressure grows on Maharashtra SEC to hold voter list revision before civic polls, CM Fadnavis pitches for SIR

CALLS are growing in Maharashtra for a voter list revision, with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis now lending his weight.

After the Opposition kept up its allegations of irregularities in the electoral rolls, Fadnavis said during a Diwali gathering at his residence that he accepted that there were problems and, therefore, a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) on the lines of Bihar was the need of the hour.

“We want an SIR in Maharashtra. There are problems with the electoral rolls, and even we have been raising them. But while the Opposition says there are problems, it opposes an SIR,” he said.

Earlier too, after Opposition delegations met state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S Chockalingam and State Election Commissioner (SEC) Dinesh Waghmare to raise their concerns, particularly in li