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Foreign Praise for India’s Electoral Roll Purging Efforts

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New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The “purging” of electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), a monumental drive undertaken by the Election Commission of India (ECI), found strong resistance and opposition within the nation, but drew significant attention and admiration in the foreign discourse.A couple of foreign journals have hailed the exercise as a sweeping step in the right direction for overhauling the country’s electoral register.Greek City Times, an Australia-based Greek news port…