Justice Ujjal Bhuyan Criticizes Mass Voter Exclusion Amid SIR Row
· India · Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Zee News
Supreme Court judge Ujjal Bhuyan has declared the mass disenfranchisement of citizens through electoral roll revisions as intrinsically arbitrary and a violation of the constitutional order. Speaking at a legal event in Hyderabad, Justice Bhuyan emphasized that the right to vote is a fundamental constitutional entitlement rather than a mere statutory privilege. His remarks follow ongoing controversy regarding the Election Commission’s special intensive revision of electoral rolls, which has seen lakhs of names deleted. Petitioners have informed the Supreme Court that over 47 lakh names were excluded from the draft roll, with millions more issued notices for verification. The Supreme Court is currently reviewing these challenges, with Chief Justice Surya Kant questioning the mechanical nature of the notice issuance process.
Why it matters
The judiciary's intervention directly impacts the voting rights of millions of citizens and forces the Election Commission to justify its administrative processes for electoral roll maintenance.
Read the original report — Hindustan Times
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