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In a sharp attack on Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray demanded accountability over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists.

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00:00You're saying there is vote chori, but you're also saying in the same breath that there have been a large
00:04number of fraudulent duplicate voters in Mumbai itself, right?
00:08Election commission is saying we are cleaning up the rolls. We are removing those very same duplicate fraudulent voters in
00:16a city like Mumbai. What's wrong with that?
00:18My hope was genuine in SIR. We thought that the SIR would clean up the list. But today what we're
00:26seeing are some startling details where lax and lax of voters who have voted in 2002, who have voted in
00:322007, who have voted in 2009, who have voted in 2014, who have voted in 2019, who have voted in
00:372024, who have voted right now in 2026, have been omitted from the list.
00:44Lax and lax of voters. The SIR, if conducted properly, would have been a huge boon for India. But today,
00:51as it goes, and you've seen our election commission also, he's also made a formal complaint with the ECI saying,
00:57give us the authority to take call at the local level. EROs don't have power.
01:01So, let's be very clear. You're saying you're not against the SIR. You want an SIR. You want a clean
01:07up of the rolls. You're saying the manner in which it's been executed, with lax of voters losing out, at
01:13the moment on a draft electoral roll, mind you only, it's the execution you have a problem with, not with
01:19an SIR per se. Am I correct?
01:21I think that's what everyone's saying. Everyone wants a clean list. Of course. I'll tell you why.
01:25There are those who are saying, we want a pre-SIR. The Kaukrut Janata Party is saying, please go back
01:30to electoral rolls pre-SIR. The Congress is saying, suspend the entire SIR process. Is that what you're saying also?
01:37I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why everyone's saying this. Because the special intensive revision is supposed to be
01:42carried out in special times. One. Two, if you genuinely believe that a special intensive revision is supposed to be
01:48carried out right now, conduct it in a clean, clear, fair, and fearless manner.
01:54Why are you going by the dictates of the BJP? Why is Gyanesh Kumar serving the BJP and not the
01:59country? This is Deshidroei. And this is what everyone's against. Bring someone like Mr. TN Session. Bring someone like Tukaram
02:07Munde. Hold us accountable if you want to. But conduct an SIR which is free and fair. Today what is
02:13happening is an exercise that is happening for the benefit of the BJP by Gaddar, Gyanesh, and Seema Khanna. That
02:19is what everyone is against.

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