BJP using SIR as a tool of electoral genocide, says Prakash Raj

Actor and social activist Prakash Raj. File | Photo Credit: RAMAKRISHNA G

“BJP is using the Election Commission of India’s Systematic Intensive Revision as a tool of electoral genocide. It has deleted 13 crore voters, effectively declaring them non-citizens in their own country. This needs to be opposed till the whole exercise is scrapped and names of all voters are restored,’’ Prakash Raj, actor and activist, said in Dharwad on Sunday.

He was participating in the ‘Pratirodha rally against fascism’, organised by several organisations. It was held in the Buddha Rakhita residential school grounds on Saundatti road.

“Already, over 13 crore voters have been obliterated. This has been done under existing laws, using government agencies. But we should realise that these are not just numbers. They are human beings with rights. Their legal lives have been ended by SIR. However, it is common knowledge that a murderer is caught not while committing the offence, but while destroying evidence. This is what I want to tell the Mahaprabhu,’’ he said.