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Arunachal BJP alleges Congress creating confusion over SIR, defends voter roll revision

Itanagar, Nov 3 (UNI) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday accused the Congress of creating confusion over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, asserting that the exercise was necessary to maintain the accuracy and credibility of the democratic process.
Addressing a press conference organized at the party headquarters here as part of the party's 'Save Democracy, Remove Anarchy' campaign, BJP State in-charge Devesh Kumar said SIR was a systematic verification exercise aimed at ensuring that every eligible citizen was included in the electoral rolls and that duplicate, deceased and other ineligible entries were identified in accordance with the law.
Kumar said electoral roll revision was a continuous democratic process and described SIR as a comprehensive exercise involving door-to-door verification.
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