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To SIR With Love Or Hate: Why SIR has Worked In Punjab, And How Mamata Banerjee Sabotaged It In West Bengal

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By R Jagannathan Verified
| Swarajya Verified
There is something perverse in a political posture where one can target the Election Commission of India (ECI) is abusive language for conducting the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, but then mark out convenient exclusions to suit your political purpose. What, however, one must highlight here is one simple truth: no successful electoral process (whether in compiling voter lists or conducting elections) works purely as an ECI standalone activity.
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The real SIR failure may lie in newsrooms, not only in the Election Commission

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By R Jagannathan Verified
| ThePrint Verified
The problem begins with the core advice budding journalists get when they start out on their careers: find an angle, find out what makes a story. An “angle” is, by definition, a limited, even slanted, view of reality. We get to define an elephant by the part we get hold of, not the whole of it. In the real world, truth comes in shades of grey, not black and white. And in today’s hyper social media world, the focus is on “narrative” and “virality”, not truth at all.
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Rahul Gandhi is trying to intimidate constitutional authorities, not defend democracy

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By R Jagannathan Verified
| ThePrint Verified
This is nothing but a not to subtle effort to intimidate a constitutional authority, the Election Commission of India (ECI). Whatever its failing, no sensible political party should be doing this. On 10 October, leading another protest, Rahul Gandhi sought a meeting with Gyanesh Kumar (without any prior request to meet) along with 300 MPs, and that too in Parliament.
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