Shah backs SIR exercise

Shah stressed that infiltration and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral polls should not be viewed through a political lens, emphasising that these were national issues

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Backing the ongoing SIR exercise by the Election Commission, Home Minister Amit Shah Friday said inclusion of infiltrators in the voters’ list pollutes the spirit of the Constitution and asserted that voting rights should only be available to the citizens of the country.

Delivering a lecture in memory of Dainik Jagran's former editor-in-chief Narendra Mohan on the topic "Infiltration (ghuspaith), demographic change and democracy", the home minister said the Centre will follow the policy of “detect, delete and deport" in dealing with infiltrators.

"The BJP has adopted the formula of detect, delete, and deport since the 1950s. We will detect the infiltrators, delete them from the voter list, and deport them from this country as well," he said.