You have not seen a more brazen attempt to separate Indian citizens than ‘nationwide’ special intense ‘ Amendment of voter roll ‘ The Election Commission of India (ECI) has started in Bihar. It is being sold as a completely clean of voter rolls-which begins with Bihar to operate nationwide-but anything. To make things worse, there are all kinds of myths and misconceptions in vogue about exercise – nine when I last counted. I will add these a bitter truth to shut down the list of 10 things about these most satanic practice.

Myth #1

<The Election Commission is doing an intense amendment and ‘reform’ of the voter role of Bihar,

Investigation of facts. This is not a revision of the existing voter list. The old list is being fully scraped, and a new voter roll is being prepared from scratch.

 Myth #2

<There is nothing new about this amendment practice – it has been done before>

Investigation of facts. Absolutely not. This time what is happening is unprecedented. After digitizing the voter lists, the need to prepare them from scratch went away. This is the first such example in 22 years. Anytime before this, the voter was placed to get his name in the list. Earlier, voters have not been asked to submit documents to prove their citizenship. A new list was never prepared before the election.

Myth #3

< Bihar voter rolls were particularly flawed, so this was to be done,

Investigation of facts. Wrong. Six months ago, Bihar’s voter list had a full -scale amendment. Millions of names were added and removed. The revised list was published in January. No major complaints of irregularities were increased. The minor errors were already being addressed through the ongoing update. If all needed, another amendment could be made. There was neither demand nor a real need to junk and start the entire list.

Myth #4

<Those whose names were in the 2003 voter list will not need to do anything,

Investigation of facts. wrong again. Everyone has to fill a new form. In the January 2025 list, whose names, father’s names and addresses will be spared to present the date of birth and birthplace in the 2003 voter list. But even these people will need to fill the form, attach a picture and signature, and a photocopy of the page from the 2003 list that shows their name.

Myth #5

<Documents will be sought only from those whose citizenship is in doubt,

Investigation of facts. This is wrong. Anyone whose name did not appear in the 2003 list will have to submit documents with new form.

§ People born before 1 July 1987 should present proof of their date and place of birth

§ People born between 1 July 1987 and 2 December 2004 must either offer evidence for themselves or for a parents

§ People born after 2 December 2004 will have to submit documents for both themselves and parents. If the parents’ names appear in the 2003 list, then a photocopy of that page would be sufficient as evidence for them-but the applicant will still have to provide documents related to birth.

Myth #6

<The Election Commission has provided several options for evidence of citizenship – certainly something will happen in every household,

Investigation of facts. Documents people generally produce as proof of ID – Aadhaar card, ration card, Election Commission’s own voter ID card, job card will not be accepted under MNREGA. ECI lists out of 11 acceptable documents, many do not apply There are rarely available for Bihar or rarely. For example: passports (which are only 2.4%), birth certificate (2.8%), government employee or pensioner ID (5%), caste certificate (16%) – are not available in ordinary homes. It leaves the school-mixing or degree certificate-is available with less than half of Bihar.

Myth #7

<नियम सभी के लिए समान हैं - कोई भेदभाव नहीं>

Investigation of facts. He is on paper. In practice, rules are loaded against people who had limited access to education. outcome? Women, poor, migrant workers, Dalits, tribal and backward communities will have a real fight on their hands to produce necessary documents – and to lose their vote. Education is effectively becoming a precondition for citizenship.

Myth #8

<The Election Commission has given three months – there is enough time to include everyone,

Investigation of facts. The real window is just one month – till 25 July. The remaining two months are for objections and internal paperwork of ECI. Within a month, ECI hopes that all booth-level officers (of 20,000 have not been appointed yet) will be trained; Party agents will also be trained; New forms will reach every house; Every person will fill his form; Necessary documents will be attached; Filled forms will be collected from every house; The data will be uploaded and its verification will begin!

Anyone whose form has not been submitted by 25 July will not come in the voter list. Duration.

Myth #9

<यह संशोधन बांग्लादेशी घुसपैठियों की समस्या को ठीक करेगा>

Investigation of facts. If Bihar has a problem with illegal foreign nationals, it is not mainly Bangladeshi Muslim – it is primarily Nepali migrants in the Terrai region, most of whom are Hindus. It is possible that amendment exercise will purify the voter rolls of a few thousand Bangladeshis and tens of thousands of Nepalis. But in this process, Indian citizens may lose the right to vote for an estimated Rs 2.5 crore. You do not swat a fly with a sledaimmer.

#the bitter truth

Bihar has a population of about 13 crores. Of these, there are about 8 crore adults who should be in the voter list. But there were only 3 crores in the 2003 list. The remaining 5 crore will now have to submit documents to prove their citizenship. At least half of them – about 2.5 crore people – are not documents of demand for ECI. Which means that it can still take away the only right to the last person in the ‘Special Intensive Amendment’ line – the right to vote.

Indians still have scary memories of ‘”Demonetisation‘(Demonetisation of November 2016) and “Landlord(March 2020’s Kovid Lockdown). Are we witness now ‘Vote ban‘, A large -scale dissolution of Indian citizens?

,Translated with permission from Hindi origin,