India news: Supreme Court hears Rahul Gandhi's Election Commission plea
A petition filed by opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and others seeks an independent audit of India's sweeping voter deletions. DW has more.
The Supreme Court in India is to hear a petition filed by the main opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, and several other opposition lawmakers over a nationwide exercise to purge over 130 million names from the country's electoral rolls. The petition argues that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, which aims to remove deceased, relocated and duplicate voters as well as prevent the inclusion of foreign illegal immigrants, may have been flawed.
Gandhi's plea requests an interim suspension of the revision and an audit of voter deletions to prevent arbitrary deletions without prior notice. The move comes amid growing concerns over alleged manipulation of voter rolls, particularly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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