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DC Edit | Voters Cannot Be Termed Discrepancies, EC Must Act

21 Sep 2026, 18:39 GMT By Deccan Chronicle
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Article DC Edit | Voters Cannot Be Termed Discrepancies, EC Must Act
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The EC has invented a new tool called ‘discrepancies’ (it was ‘logical discrepancies’ in West Bengal) to deny people their basic right as citizens of this country: the right to vote. The Supreme Court itself had once remarked that some of the ‘discrepancies’ the EC talks about, such as minor variations in the spellings in surnames or age differences between parents and children, are very normal and natural in Indian conditions