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ECI claim 98% have submitted documents unbelievable; I fear 2 cr could be disenfranchised

ECI claim 98% have submitted documents unbelievable; I fear 2 cr could be disenfranchised: Yogendra Yadav, National Convenor, Bharat Jodo Abhiyan, to Karan Thapar for The Wire .......................................... Yogendra Yadav, the National Convenor of the Bharat Jodo Abhiyan, who has been intently following the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, says “I couldn’t believe” the claim made by the Election Commission on Sunday that 98.2% of people on the draft electoral roll have submitted their documents. Citing a survey that his own organization has done, details of which are published in the op-ed he wrote today (26/8) for the Indian Express, Mr. Yadav says that only 18% of people have been able to submit one of the 11 documents required by the Election Commission. 43% have not submitted any of the 11 documents. If they are, as a result, disenfranchised, Mr. Yadav fears that perhaps as many as 2 crore people could be disenfranchised. Asked for his opinion of the SIR exercise in Bihar, as we approach its last phase, Mr. Yadav said it fails on three criteria – completeness, accuracy and equity. He said: “To my mind any exercise in voter list revision should be judged by three yardsticks – number one, completeness – which is to say how inclusive is the electoral roll – Bihar was 97% when the SIR began. It came down to 88%. If there is any significant deletion on account of lack of documents it’ll be lower than that. So that is a failure clearly. In terms of accuracy, which is the essential claim of the SIR … we have cleaned it up. We’ve purified it. We now have a perfect electoral roll. That claim has been simply blown apart not merely by the instances of alive people who have been declared dead, but the multiple instances now being reported of one house with 290 names. I know of one house which houses the entire booth of 924 voters. We have instances of duplication … So clearly duplication has not been done away with. The figures available with us suggest that in every single constituency anything between 2 and 5,000 names have been duplicated. So if accuracy was your criteria then duplicacy has not been removed, dubious household names have not been removed. So we don’t as yet know what accuracy improvement has taken place. And, finally, equity. We know for sure that the whole thing has systematically discriminated against women. In our own little survey we found out that people who are liable to be left out on account of lack of document are more likely to be SC and the EBC, the lowest OBCs. So it’s loaded against the poor and the disadvantaged and the marginal groups. So, to my mind, so far, the SIR exercise has failed all the three tests. It has made it less complete. Not more accurate. I won’t say more inaccurate. At least, as inaccurate as it used to be. And certainly more inequitable.” If you want to understand where things stand as regards the SIR exercise and what are the indications of how it might end up, I strongly suggest you watch this interview. Mr. Yadav also corrects the wrong impression conveyed by Amit Malviya, the Head of the BJP’s IT Department, that the Supreme Court has not authorized the use of Aadhaar as a separate and sufficient document for the special intensive revision. I will leave you to hear the interview to find out what he says about this as well as what he says about multiple other matters such as the fact more women have been deleted than men, such as the fact many people declared dead turn out to be alive, as well as the claim that Block Level Agents of recognized political parties in Bihar have only submitted 10 claims and objections. Join The Wire's Youtube Membership and get exclusive content, member-only emojis, live interaction with The Wire's founders, editors and reporters and much more. Memberships to The Wire Crew start at Rs 89/month.    / @thewirenews