Amid concerns that the special intensive revision of electoral rolls could deny genuine electors their right to vote, Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday said that any process that disenfranchises Indians is “intrinsically arbitrary”, reported Bar and Bench.
“No amount of whataboutery can justify it,” Bhuyan said while speaking at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research in Hyderabad.
He said that such a process “strikes at the very heart of the Constitution and I would go to the extent of saying that it is a negation of the constitutional order”.
Former Supreme Court judge Rohinton Fali Nariman also expressed concerns about 13.8 crore voters having been removed from the electoral rolls of 31 states and Union Territories, saying that the “Election Commission cannot malfunction like this”, reported Live Law.
The statements came as protests are being held in several parts of the country calling for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign over concerns about the functioning of the Election Commission and its handling of the special intensive revision exercise.
Read Scroll’s coverage of the special intensive revision exercise here.
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Speaking at the law school in Hyderabad, Bhuyan said that unless a voter has died, no one else’s name can be deleted from the electoral roll “without notice and hearing”, reported Bar and Bench.
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