New Delhi: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday clarified that the opposition parties never demanded stay on Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls and took a veiled dig at the Election Commission of India (ECI) alleging deliberately misleading headline management and it does not befit a Constituional authority.
Ramesh, who is also the Congress General Secretary and communication incharge, remarks came a day after the Supreme Court ordered the poll panel to include Aadhar, EPIC card or the ration cards in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter rolls.
In a post on X, Ramesh, a Rajya Sabha MP said, “Following the Honble Supreme Court’s order that has just come out officially, the Election Commission now has to include the EPIC, Aadhar cards, and Ration Cards in the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls in Bihar. This will save a vast majority of voters from being disenfranchised.”
“Moreover the EC’s spin on the no stay being given has been clearly exposed. Page 7 of the order makes it clear that no stay was asked for by any of the petitioners yesterday,” he clarified.
“Such deliberately misleading headline management does not befit a Constitutional authority,” he said sharing the order of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court order, passed on Thursday stated that since these cases will come up before the appropriate Court prior to August 1, 2025 which is the scheduled date for notification of Draft Electoral Rolls there is no occasion presently to pass any order on the ad interim stay applications, and the petitioners in any case do not press for a stay at this stage.
Depending on the reply of the Election Commission the petitioners would always be at liberty to press their plea for stay on the next date of listing, the order read.
