New Delhi: Terming the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise as ‘backdoor NRC’ meant to disenfranchise people in the name of religion, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said it also violated parliamentary legislation.

Owaisi, the leader of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), was speaking in the Lok Sabha during a discussion on election reforms.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) is not a body empowered to concern itself about citizenship, said AIMIM chief Owaisi, adding that the power of determining citizenship lies with the Union Home Ministry and the Government of India, among others. Show Full Article

“What ECI is doing is wrong. It has no role in this. How is it that the ECI is assuming the power given to another agency of Parliament? ECI is violating the sanctity o

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