Congress’s Barabanki MP Tanuj Punia has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh.

In his petition submitted by advocate Shariq Ahmed, Punia said the SIR in UP “carries an immediate risk of excluding lakhs of genuine electors from the rolls of India’s largest State”. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO

The poll body had ordered an SIR on June 24, starting with Bihar ahead of Assembly elections in the state. In a notification on October 27, the EC ordered the second phase of the exercise in nine states, including UP which goes to polls in 2027, and three UTs.

The plea, which sought quashing of the EC’s October 27 order, said the “consequences of such exclusion fall most heavily on communities that already face structural barri

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