New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) has informed the Supreme Court that it will not be feasible to allow domestic migrants to vote in an election in any place where they had migrated.
Giving this information before a bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice Amitav Roy, senior counsel Meenakshi Arora submitted that the EC had set up an in-house panel to study how domestic migrants residing outside their home town can vote and the panel in its interim report has said that such a proposal is not feasible.
In its interim report, the EC panel said prima facie any extension of dispensation for overseas voters to domestic migrant labourers/workers within the country or diluting the ordinary resident criteria is fraught with risks.
The integrity of electoral process is inextricably linked with purity of electoral rolls. Roll management is based on enrolling eligible voters residing within the territorial limits of the constituency and deleting those who are dead.
