Summary of the Article
-Govts in India can deprive beneficiaries of Welfare Schemes just someone became a victim of a new-fangled voter-deleting monster called SIR.
- 24 great Chief Election Commissioners or CECs like Sukumar Sen and TN Seshan did not require SIR to spread terror among the citizenry and normal electoral revision worked so well for 75 years.
- All PMs and CMs were elected under the normal pre-SIR system and we can't cancel their elections just because India's 25th CEC says it was defective.
- He implemented a SIR that appears to be prepared by corporate lawyers to harass citizens and delete voters .
- But we are not discussing SIR and Election Results in WB, where the BJP won by a massive majority because of a wave — people were just fed up with TMC.
- But can voters whose names were deleted by SIR — 27 lakh of who have boldly appealed to Tribunal — be deprived of Welfare Schemes Benefits?
- How can deletion be presumed to convey "non citizenship" — when the CEC himself swore before Supreme Court that it is not so.
- We need to question the Supreme Court’s role in getting into everything and burdening judicial officers with purely executive functions, delaying the whole process — without clearly justifying reasons.
- The Supreme Court thus deliberately disenfranchised 27 lakhs of genuine citizens in WB. — victims of SIR — for the first time in India's history
- It is my duty to give a timely advice to the Supreme Court that the Appeal Disposal by Tribunals is much too slow — it may take 50 years to dispose!
- Why should voters suffer? 27 lakhs?
- We are also pained at the harsh and uncalled for statements made by the Supreme Court about dissenters and telling protesters not to violate the law.
- If Gandhiji and our National Freedom Struggle followed this advice — we would still be a British Colony.