NEW DELHI:The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the Election Commission of India on the timing of the Special Intensive Revision drive in poll-bound Bihar saying it went to the “root of democracy and power to vote” while rejecting the argument that the poll panel did not have any power to carry it out.
The ECI also justified the exercise and said Aadhaar wasn’t a “proof of citizenship”.
A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi questioned Dwivedi over the exclusion of Aadhaar card in the SIR drive in Bihar and said the ECI had nothing to do with citizenship of a person and it was the Ministry of Home Affairs’ domain.