Actor Prakash Raj is touring Karnataka to document discrepancies in the electoral rolls revision process
Raj, who reached Mangaluru as part of the fact-finding tour, said the group had visited different districts and was examining around 100 polling booths to document discrepancies, confusion and difficulties faced by voters, news agency PTI reported. The group is scheduled to travel to Kodagu next and submit its findings on September 30, he said.
“We are going to file a report of our findings of the 100 booths and the discrepancies, the trauma, the confusion and the murder of democracy which has happened in the country,” Raj said. Referring to concerns raised by two election commissioners, he said they should not be dismissed as mere dissent. Speaking to PTI, he said, “It is not a dissent.
It was a warning. It was an anguish. It was the truth.”
MANGALURU: Actor and activist Prakash Raj , who is touring Karnataka with civil society groups to document alleged discrepancies in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, on Monday demanded that the exercise be scrapped and that records of Election Commission decisions and meetings be placed before the Supreme Court .
He further alleged that the Election Commission’s response was an attempt to cover up evidence and said the proposed investigation of its electoral roll system by IITs and IIITs should have been initiated earlier.