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New Delhi: Former election commissioner Ashok Lavasa said on Thursday (September 3) that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is “legal [but] is it fair”and is an example of the “might is right” philosophy being practised by statutory bodies.

“Now the institutions which have the might of law invested in them, think that whatever they do is right. You have the example of the special intensive revision, where an unfair procedure has been imposed on millions of people in the country, and you have the judiciary which has validated that,” Lavasa said, while delivering the Prof. Jagdeep Singh Chhokar Memorial Lecture, organised by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) in New Delhi.

“Of course, it is legal. [But] Is it fair,” he........

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