Bengaluru 22 Aprail २०२६ * Anti-SIR Conference ,Karnataka will not tolerate even a single eligible voter being left out of the vote revision.

Bengaluru 22 Aprail २०२६ * Anti-SIR Conference ,Karnataka will not tolerate even a single eligible voter being left out of the vote revision.

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026 Time: 10:30 AM onwards,
Venue: Freedom Park, Bengaluru.

Respected Friends,
An unprecedented injustice is taking place in India’s democratic system on April 23. In West Bengal, elections are being held by taking away the voting rights of more than half a crore people. The Supreme Court is acting as if it is ‘whipping in words – being an accomplice in deeds’. This is a knife in the chests of all democracy lovers.
The situation that has come to Bengal will come to Karnataka tomorrow too. Already, the voting rights of 6.5 crore people in 13 states have been revoked. Gradually, this will become a phenomenon of the entire country. Expressing solidarity with the lakhs of people who have been thrown out of the democratic process and warning that the same will not be allowed to continue in Karnataka, on the same day (April 23), progressive organizations and secular parties opposing SIR in Karnataka have come together and organized an “Anti-SIR Protest Conference” at Freedom Park.
Sheikh Faridul Islam of Vote Adhikar Manch, who has lost his own vote and on behalf of the victims of Bengal who have lost their right to vote, will come as a first-hand witness and unfold the story of Bengal. Many Bengali migrant workers who have lost their right to vote will be present at the conference as a living example.
Representatives of all the progressive and people’s organizations of Karnataka are participating in the conference. Former ministers B.T. Lalitha Naik, Badgalpura Nagendra of the farmers’ movement, H. R. Basavarajappa, Anusuyamma, Haider Baig, Labor Movement S. Varalakshmi, Babu Mathew, S. Balan, K.V. Bhatt, Sushma Verma; Dalit movement leader N. Venkatesh, Indira Krishnappa, Inudhara Honnapura, Mavalli Shankar, Guruprasad Keragodu, V. Nagaraj, Ambanna Arolikar, Basavaraj Kautal, Eddelu Karnataka coordinators Tara Rao, K.L. Ashok, Veerasangaiah, Mohammad Kunhi, Arun Lewis, Vinay Srinivasa of Namma Mata Namma Hakku Vedike, Shripad Bhatt, Geeta Menon, Adam Khan of Jagrita Karnataka; The representatives of the minority community are Masood Abdul Khader, Mohammad Yusuf Kanni, Yasin Malpe, Paricho Prabhu, Manohar Chandraprasad, Anthony Vikram, Mallige Sirimane of the Women’s Movement, Ramachandrappa of the Manava Bandhutva Vedike, Basavaraj Sulibhavi of May Sahitya Mela, Noor Sridhar of Karnataka Janashakti, pro-Kannada fighter Ramesh Bellamkonda, Sh.Bho. Radhakrishna, Dinesh Kumar; Akkai Padmasali, Manohar Iluvarthy, Mallu Kumbar from the Gender and sexual minority community, Manjunath, Basavaraj from the nomadic community, human rights activists V.S. Sridhar, students’ movement’s Mohammed Peer, Sarovar Benikere, RTI leaders Adarsh Iyer, Karnataka Rakshana Vedike’s Dinesh Kumar Dinu, Nagesh Aralukuppe of the anti-superstition movement, thinkers Allama Prabhu Bettadoor, Banjagere Jayaprakash, Shivsunder, etc. Thousands of social activists are participating in the conference.
Along with the people’s organizations, all the secular parties of Karnataka are also participating in the success of this conference. Congress party’s G.C. Chandrashekhar, Naseer Ahmed, B.R. Patil, Welfare Party’s Tahir Hussain, SDPI’s K.H. Abdul Majeed, Sarvodaya Party’s Chamaras Mali Patil, CPM’s Prakash, CPI’s Siddana Gowda Patil, CPI [ML]’s Clifton Rosario, CPIML [Mass Line]’s D.H. Poojar, V.N. Rajashekar, State Committee members, SUCI(c), Civic Bangalore’s Katyayini Chamarajanagar, Aishwarya (PUCL) are participating. This protest shall be the united voice of all progressive organizations and all secular parties in Karnataka.
We are inviting every conscious citizen of Karnataka to this conference. Come, let us send a message to the victims of Bengal that “We can feel your pain”. Let us also send a strong message to the Election Commission that we will not allow this to be repeated in Karnataka.
Greetings.
On behalf of the above coalition, J.M. Veerasangaiah, Shripad Bhat, K.L. Ashok.

Anti SIR – Alliance of Secular Parties and Progressive Organizations Karnataka