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Jairam Ramesh questions SIR’s rationale, says only 1,600 foreign nationals identified in six states

New Delhi, Oct 29 (UNI) Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh on Thursday accused union Home Minister Amit Shah of misleading the country over the objectives of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, arguing that official figures cited by him showed that only 1,600 foreign nationals had been identified among nearly 10 crore people covered by the exercise in six states.
In a post on the social media platform X, Ramesh recalled that Shah had described SIR as having a “3D objective” — to “detect, delete and deport” infiltrators — with the stated aim of “purifying” electoral rolls. Questioning the rationale behind the extensive revision, he cited figures from Karnataka, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Kerala, Goa and Mizoram to argue that the number of foreign nationals identified was disproportionately small compared with the scale of the exercise.
“Nearly 10 crore people went through the SIR in these states — to find 1600 ‘foreigners’,” Ramesh said. He added that comparable figures were unavailable for the other 20 states and union Territories because, according to him, the Election Commission of India had not asked them to collect such data.
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