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Speaking at the ‘People’s Tribunal’ against the SIR exercise in Bengaluru’s Freedom Park, actor Prakash Raj said, “People from different groups have joined us here, from CJP to AISA, for the same cause. This is not just “vote chori”, but via SIR, the ECI has insulted the entire country. So far, election officials would go house to house to enroll new voters. Now, the voter is running from pillar to post, pleading with election officials over why their name shouldn’t be removed.”
“In this country, people used to decide who forms the government but with SIR, the government is deciding who will vote. This is not a clean up exercise, deletions are not just numbers. There is a pattern - it is all minority, Adivasi, and Muslim voters,” the actor said.
“The aim of this protest is not to remove CEC Gyanesh Kumar alone. If he goes, another will replace him. The aim is to scrap SIR. This protest is to restore the right of the citizens. Scrap SIR, and file a case against Gyanesh Kumar. Uuntil then, the agitation will not stop.” Mr. Raj said.
“Gyanesh Kumar and Modi-Shah should meet the victims, the people who were deleted [from the voter rolls] during the SIR,” he said, while lauding the CJP and others who joined the protest as “superstars” who had showed up for the citizens and their rights.
- Aditya Bharadwaj reports; Photo: N. Ravichandran
