ASDDO cases provide fresh grounds to challenge SIR, says Prashant Bhushan
Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan has called for a legal challenge against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Karnataka. He argues that the ASDDO category is being used to unfairly mark voters as absent or shifted, violating their rights.
Why it matters
This legal challenge addresses potential systemic issues in electoral roll management and voter disenfranchisement.
Calling for a fresh legal challenge to Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Karnataka, senior advocate Prashant Bhushan on Sunday urged voters marked as shifted or absent under the ASDDO (Absent, Shifted, Duplicate, Dead and Others) category, as well as those denied enumeration forms, to approach the courts, saying these cases provided fresh grounds to challenge the exercise.
Addressing an interaction organised by civil society groups, Mr. Bhushan described the use of the ASDDO category to mark voters as absent or shifted as a “systematic failure” of the revision process.
“If a person who has shifted residence is not given an enumeration form despite approaching the registration office, they should file an affidavit and move the court,” he said, adding that affected voters should not wait for the process to conclude before seeking legal remedies.
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