Assam Cabinet Minister Jayanta Malla Baruah has called for a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls every five years, saying the exercise is necessary to ensure that no foreign national’s name remains on the state’s voter list while speaking exclusively to NDTV.
Jayanta Malla Baruah accused the Congress of blaming EVMs for its electoral defeats and referred to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s recent remarks challenging the opposition to contest elections using ballot papers
Speaking at the Jan Jagaran Samdal rally in Nalbari, Assam on Tuesday, Baruah also targeted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over the opposition’s allegations concerning electronic voting machines (EVMs) and its demand for a return to ballot paper voting. “Everyone wants an SIR in Assam. Referring to Assam’s six-year-long agitation against illegal immigration, the minister argued that the state had particular reasons to scrutinise electoral rolls. Baruah also accused the Congress of blaming EVMs for its electoral defeats and referred to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s recent remarks challenging the opposition to contest elections using ballot papers. “Congress never stands with the public, which is why they keep losing.
Not a single foreigner’s name should remain on Assam’s voter list,” Baruah said. And after losing, they blame EVMs, sometimes ballot papers, or make other excuses,” he said.
