NEW DELHI: Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Thursday sought a fresh Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and asked Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign, citing reported differences within the Election Commission over its decision-making process.
Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, Shivakumar referred to a media report which said Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had formally recorded objections at least 14 times over the past 10 months. He said the reported differences raised serious questions about the country’s democratic system.
“Today, in the democratic system, two out of the three members have expressed their disagreement. The right to vote, which is meant to protect every individual and their livelihood, has today been compromised,” he charged.
Shivakumar said Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi had raised the issue of alleged “Vote Chori” from Bengaluru, and said the right to vote belonged to every citizen. He alleged that more than one crore names had been deleted from Karnataka’s electoral rolls for various reasons.
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