Bengaluru: Legal experts and citizen-rights activists on Sunday warned that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls poses a grave threat of “civil death” for thousands of eligible voters, particularly women, migrant workers and marginalised communities. They demanded that the government conduct a house-to-house enumeration to prevent wrongful deletions and large-scale exclusions.

The concern was raised during a state-level workshop organised by the My Vote My Rights coalition, even as the Election Commission of India (ECI) has already issued guidelines for implementing SIR. Although the ECI’s June 24 order states that the objective of SIR is to ensure all eligible citizens are included in the rolls, activists noted that Karnataka has not yet begun the process and that

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