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India slams UN rights office over SIR protest remarks
Original: ohchr
India has criticised the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), calling its expression of concern over protests linked to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls 'misplaced and unwarranted'. The government rejected the international body's intervention, insisting the matter is an internal one. The sharp exchange between New Delhi and the UN rights office is drawing attention to growing scrutiny of the SIR exercise.
Why now: India publicly rebuked a UN body, a notable diplomatic friction point making headlines.
IndiaOHCHRTimes of IndiaSpecial Intensive Revision (SIR)
Evidence
- Wave of protests shows that Indian democracy’s greatest strength is its ‘million mutinies’ · Scroll.in
- Delhi protest: Stopped at police barricades, daily-wage workers lose day’s earnings · The Hindu
- 'Misplaced, unwarranted': India slams OHCHR for raising concern over SIR protest · The Times of India
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