Maharashtra Minister Bawankule says EC’s second phase of voter roll revision is a “good step”

Maharashtra Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Tuesday welcomed the Election Commission’s decision to conduct the second phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across 12 states and Union Territories, calling it a “good step” towards ensuring accuracy in the voter list.

He said a “correct” voter list cannot be prepared without such an exercise.

“…The list of my area has 5 lakh 40 thousand votes. If someone goes somewhere else, they are added to that area as well, but there is no deletion. They go somewhere else, but their name is not deleted from that area… Without conducting a survey, the correct things will not come out… The Election Commission has taken a good step,” Bhawankule told reporters.

The opposition, however, has criticised the move, with Kerala Ch