Cannot accept that a poor person on account of their poverty is excluded from final elector roll: Owaisi
Asaduddin Owaisi has expressed concerns regarding the exclusion of poor citizens from electoral rolls due to documentation issues. He emphasized that the process must be inclusive regardless of religion and warned against potential citizenship verification hurdles.
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Addresses critical concerns regarding voter disenfranchisement and the intersection of poverty, bureaucracy, and citizenship rights.
Hyderabad parliamentarian Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said no genuine elector should be excluded from the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls merely because they are poor or lack the required documentation even as he asserted that such exclusion was unacceptable regardless of the person’s religion.
“As a member of Parliament, and a soldier of my party, I cannot accept that a poor person owing to their poverty, and due to lack of documentation is not included [in the SIR]. Irrespective of to which religion that person belongs,” Mr. Owaisi said during an event at the party headquarters in Darussalaam.
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