The author of this essay is Apoorva Singh (3rd year student from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun). ADR collaborated with the Centre for Human Rights and Disability Studies (CHRDS), Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla, for the National Article Writing Competition on “Electoral Rights of Persons with Disabilities”. This essay has been published […]
The authors of this essay are Ananya Singh and Divyansh Gera (2nd year students from Maharaja Surajmal Institute, New Delhi). ADR collaborated with the Centre for Human Rights and Disability Studies (CHRDS), Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla, for the National Article Writing Competition on “Electoral Rights of Persons with Disabilities”. This essay has been […]
The author of this essay is Rangoli Singh (2nd year student from Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla). ADR collaborated with the Centre for Human Rights and Disability Studies (CHRDS), Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla, for the National Article Writing Competition on “Electoral Rights of Persons with Disabilities”. This essay has been published under […]
The recent judgment of the Supreme Court justifying the validity of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the case of Bihar and giving a clean chit to it appear to be deeply flawed. The controversy has been mostly restricted to debates about the resulting disenfranchisement of lakhs or crores of citizens and the manner of […]
The 130th Amendment Bill’s framing betrays its political motive. Ajit Ranade on why it’s not about keeping criminals out of power In late February, a Delhi court discharged all 23 accused in the excise policy case, ruling there was “no overarching conspiracy or criminal intent” in the policy at issue. One of the accused had spent 530 […]
The ongoing exercise of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has raised serious concerns about the potential disenfranchisement of large numbers of citizens. In many instances, people are being asked to produce retrospective documents to establish their citizenship—documents that many genuine citizens are unable to provide. The challenge before policymakers is to identify prospective […]
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is likely to start in several more States anytime soon. Citizens’ movements in these States need to demand a stop to the SIR and ask for measures that will ensure that no genuine voter is excluded. The experience of States where SIR has been conducted have thrown up the […]
The advantage of a fresh exercise is that it will not replicate the existing errors in the rolls and prevent inclusion and exclusion errors happening on a massive scale through the SIR It is a welcome measure that the Karnataka Cabinet has decided to ask the state Law Department to study the proposed Special Intensive […]
As there is no satisfactory means of proving a voter’s citizenship retrospectively, identify a prospective exercise to ensure that no genuine citizen gets excluded from the electoral roll or citizenship Not only civil society organisations even officialdom is now openly resisting the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. An assistant electoral registration officer in […]
Cash transfers fundamentally alter the relationship between the state and the voter. They create a one-way flow — the government gives, the citizen receives. Gratitude begins to substitute accountability. After years of delay, Mumbai is finally headed for a municipal election. For nearly half a decade, India’s richest city has been governed not by elected […]