Marking 'VIPs' routine, was part of SSR even before SIR: Officials

NEW DELHI: EC, which is reeling under allegations of faultlines among its members, is now being questioned over a software update recently made in the application used by booth level officers, with its description on the Apple app store reading "mark VIP elector-related changes".EC sources told TOI Friday the instruction to BLOs on "flagging of marked electors" was a standard instruction, which was part of all three special intensive revision orders approved by the commission.The instruction to field officers to "mark" prominent electors in their jurisdictional areas has figured in EC's instructions for all special summary revisions, well before SIR was conceived, they said.