NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Thursday told the Supreme Court the approach of NGO Association for Democratic Reforms was communal as it made an allegation that there was a "disproportionate exclusion of Muslims" in Bihar's Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
EC's counsel senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi submitted before a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi that the petitioner's (ADR) argument was based on some name-recognition software, the accuracy of which was doubtful.
It termed the petitioner's argument as "communal approach" which is to be deprecated.
Dwivedi maintained that the Electoral Rolls database does not capture any information about the elector's religion.
The ECI sought dismissal of the batch of pleas which challenged the June 24 decision of the poll panel to conduct the Bihar SIR.
The EC claimed that the petitioners have “ulterior motives” and are merely content with making “false allegations” to discredit the SIR exercise, final electoral roll and the ECI for electoral interest of political parties.
A batch of petitions were filed by NGO- ADR, People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Yogendra Yadav, Lok Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) from Trinamool Congress Party, Mahua Moitra, Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) MP Manoj Jha, Congress Party leader K C Venugopal and Mujahid Alam.
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