EC removes added declaration from Form 6 online in states where SIR is over
Four days after announcing the removal, the Election Commission took the decision off its ECINET application portal in states where the SIR has concluded. The EC had earlier stated that "for non-SIR period, the Forms applicable as per Rules (the Registration of Electors Rules 1960) will be used." This move came after The Indian Express reported that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had objected to the declaration's inclusion in the Form 6, a form amendable only by the Union Law Ministry.
The ECINET portal no longer displayed the declaration, which had been placed between Sections J and K of the online Form 6, for states where the final SIR electoral rolls had been published. However, the declaration remained for states where the SIR was still ongoing.
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