SIR: NDA defends bulk Form-7 filings, accuses Congress of ‘unlawful’ interference
The NDA has accused the Karnataka government of using police to intimidate BJP workers who are filing Form-7 objections to electoral rolls. The alliance maintains that filing these objections is a legitimate statutory right under election rules.
Why it matters
The dispute underscores tensions regarding electoral integrity and the potential for political parties to weaponize administrative processes like voter roll revisions.
Days after at least four FIRs were registered against BJP workers for seeking deletion of names, mostly of Muslim voters, through Form-7, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) accused the Congress-led State government of “unlawfully” interfering in and influencing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and using the police machinery to intimidate people filing Form-7 objections.
The alliance met Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) V. Anbu Kumar and submitted a complaint against the State government on Monday (October 5).
BJP and JD(S) leaders, including Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje and Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly R. Ashok, said that members of the ruling Congress and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) workers were “extensively and unduly influencing and interfering” in the process.
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