New Delhi, Dec 10 (PTI) Lone Congress MP from West Bengal Isha Khan Choudhury on Wednesday alleged that the special intensive revision of electoral rolls is a type of a "backdoor NRC" and the current exercise sharply differs from past such voter list revisions.

Participating in the debate in Lok Sabha on 'election reforms', he said this special intensive revision (SIR) has turned into a bureaucratic maze, demanding legacy documents that many vulnerable citizens never had, making the right to vote "theoretical rather than real".

"The right of every adult citizen to vote is recognized under article 326 of the Indian Constitution. However, today I wish to discuss how this universal right is being weakened, instead of strengthened, because of the particular way the ongoing SIR is being execu

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