Karnataka SIR: More cases of Form-7s filed to delete Muslim voter names crop up
Karnataka SIR: More cases of Form-7s filed to delete Muslim voter names crop up A man from Ujire remarked that he and his family learnt concerning the Form-7s submitted against their names after the booth-level officer sought extra documents.
Karnataka SIR: More cases of Form-7s filed to delete Muslim voter names crop up A man from Ujire remarked that he and his family learnt concerning the Form-7s submitted against their names after the booth-level officer sought extra documents.
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For context, the chief electoral officer's office issued a press release on Friday noting that 84, 900 Form-7s were submitted in Karnataka. (Representational image).
More instances of alleged bulk submission of Form-7 applications to remove eligible Muslim voters from electoral rolls surfaced in Karnataka on Friday, a day after Chief Minister D K Shivakumar submitted details of three FIRs filed over similar complaints.
According to Rakshith Shivaram. This person unsuccessfully contested on a Congress ticket from the Belthangady constituency in the Dakshina Kannada district in 2023, 279 Form-7s were filed for voter deletion in 16 polling stations.
In Ujire in the Belthangady constituency, 82 Form-7s were filed seeking the deletion of the names of Muslim voters from the final electoral roll after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
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