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Congress leader and Karnataka minister Satish Jarkiholi has defended the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka, stating that the deletion of 9.93 million names was justified as they included voters who had died, shifted, or were duplicates. He maintained that the SIR was conducted properly in Karnataka due to training and protests, and argued it should have been implemented similarly in West Bengal, Maharashtra, and Bihar, where the Congress has raised concerns.
The final electoral roll in Karnataka now has 45.5 million voters, down from 55.4 million. Over 1.9 million voters were classified as absent and 6.54 million as permanently shifted. While Jarkiholi affirmed the legitimacy of the process, other Congress leaders, including BK Hariprasad and Priyank Kharge, raised concerns about alleged irregularities involving Form 7 applications and unexplained deletions, particularly in Chittapur and Vijayapura.
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