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Exclusion of Aadhaar, Ration Card in Sir ‘Patently absurd’: NGO in Supreme Court
The NGO Association for Democratic Reforms has told the Supreme Court that the Aadhaar and ration card from the list of accepted documents in the Special Intensive Amendment (SIR) of Bihar is “patently absurd” and the Election Commission has not given any valid reason for its decision.
In a resounder filed in the apex court, the NGO stated that the Aadhaar card is one of the documents accepted to obtain a permanent residence certificate, any OBC/SC/ST certificate and passport.
The NGO stated that it is utterly absurd under the immediate head order to “rejection of the ECI’s Assad (which is the most widely conducted document).
It said that the EC has not given any valid reason to exclude Aadhaar and ration card from the list of acceptable documents.
The NGO has argued that the Election Registration Officers lies with a comprehensive and uncontrolled discretion, resulting in disintegration of a significant section of the population of Bihar.
“The petition suggests that the Sir order is dated on 24 June 2025, if not set separately, arbitrarily and without any procedure to choose their representatives to disrupt independent and fair elections and democracy in the country, which are part of the original structure of the Constitution,” said.
As the GST Council calls for a two -day meeting tomorrow, the fastest point of the dispute will not be the Prime Minister’s Diwali deadline for the “next generation” reforms, but the question of how the states will be compensated for the proposed comprehensive changes.
Improvements may be promised to simplify the tax structure and low rates on essential commodities and services, but state governments are afraid that they will have to struggle with lack of adequate revenue.
At the center of the case, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s commitment to start a new GST regime by 2025. The proposed overhaul includes compressing the current four-level structure in two major slabs of 5 percent and 18 percent while maintaining exemption on essential food, medicines and education.
In addition, a high 40 percent rate is to be planted on sin and luxury goods, which covers items such as alcohol, tobacco and cigarettes. While the Center frames the move as a “Diwali gift” to reduce prices to consumers and MSMEs and simplify compliance, states have argued that the actual cost will be borne by them.
Many items are expected to shift up to 12 percent from slabs to 5 percent and 28 percent from slab to 18 percent, state governments will come for sharp contractions in tax receipts.
Opposition ruled states, including Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Punjab, Jharkhand, Telangana and Himachal Pradesh, have warned that the proposed rationalization can strip between Rs 85,000 crore and Rs 2 lakh crore annually from their treasures.
These estimates are for 15-20 percent erosion of their GST revenue base. Telangana alone suffers a loss of Rs 7,000 crore.
The compensation end of compensation cess in March 2026 has intensified the demands for an alternative mechanism. Using 2024–25 as the state base year, the minimum five-year-old compensation are pressurizing for guarantee, and the protection of at least 14 percent revenue increase per year that reflects the conditions in the first five years of GST.
Without such security, finance ministers have warned that important welfare schemes, infrastructure projects and development expenses will be compromised.
The Supreme Court rejected the appeal by the son of National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal on Tuesday, September 2,, demanding the bail given to one of the accused in the 2022 murder case.
A bench, including Justices MM Sundaresh and Satish Chandra Sharma, refused to intervene in the earlier decision of the Rajasthan High Court, granted bail to Mohammad Javed, who was one of the many people involved in the murder.
The apex court was hearing an appeal filed against an order passed by Nia and Yash Teli, Lal’s son, Rajasthan High Court to bail Javed.
Looking for Teli, the lawyer argued that Javed played an important role in the conspiracy, alleging that he had closed the main attackers about Lal’s location and movements.
The petition stated: “The murder was done in a communally surcharge atmosphere across the country.” This further alleged: “The chief accused had gathered himself, prepared to kill, collected weapons, resumed and imposed Javed to inform about the deceased’s hideout.”
Describing the sequence of murder, it claimed: “On a terrible date, he entered the tailor shop, disguised as customers and while the deceased was taking his size, the accused put a camera, shouted a communal slogan, attacked and killed the deceased.”
The NIA, while supporting the petition, said that Javed worked in a neighbor’s shop and provided information about red hideout on the day of crime.
Despite these presentations, the apex court opted not to interfere with the bail given by the High Court.
Gandhi reiterated the allegations of “rigging of industrial-mamane” in the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections, accusing the Election Commission (ECI) of India to help the BJP to help in elections later.
Political observers in Patna believe that the Congress campaign has ignored the BJP. However, BJP leader and Patna Sahib MP Ravi Shankar Prasad dismissed Gandhi’s remarks as “irresponsible”, saying, “Whenever I listen to Rahul Gandhi, inside or out of Parliament, takes time to understand what he is trying to say.
Gandhi’s Pinpoint allegations and a large -scale mob in their voter Adikar Yatra meetings in front of the mob, however, such a thing looks rapidly irrelevant and clear. In the post-7 August press conference, not a single point-by-point rebellion of his allegations has come from either BJP or ECI.
The ECI has only denied Gandhi’s allegations. On August 14, it called Mahadevpura to Gandhi’s claims about “false and misleading”. Earlier in February, the ECI described it as “efforts to disappoint parties” as “completely absurd” by the ECI “disappointed with the poll results”.
Widely criticized and at the press conference, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar dramatically announced that Gandhi either would have to prove his allegations or apologize to the nation “. Since then a fortnight has passed. Kumar is still waiting for the evidence that Gandhi has already presented.
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