Two Election Commissioners objected on record to poll panel steps
खुल गई पोल, सामने आ गया खेल, एक्सप्रेस की रिपोर्ट से मचा तहलका: RAVISH KUMAR
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From keeping them in the dark to adding new voters, deleting names, Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi flagged “unauthorised, illegal” moves. The Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR), which began in Bihar in June 2025, an otherwise routine clean-up of the rolls, has struck more than 13 crore names (that’s 130 million) off the draft voter rolls in 30 States and Union Territories. This has put the Election Commission at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.
An investigation by The Indian Express reveals that questions were raised on these very issues within the three-member Election Commission (EC) itself, time and again through much of this same period. By two of the three Election Commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, no less.
The national rollout of the SIR has been under the supervision of all three Commissioners. But Sandhu and Joshi have formally objected, on record, at least 14 times over the last 10 months — four times on a single day — to decisions taken and orders issued, they say, without their knowledge. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
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India’s Election Commission has been bracketing citizens into ‘general’ and ‘VIP’ voters
You may have been concerned that the Election Commission of India (ECI) is overreaching and putting names of Chief Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and many prominent personalities in its doubtful voter list during Delhi’s SIR.
Please don’t be concerned, because what’s happening is the opposite. Our investigation reveals that the ECI is going above and beyond to ensure that no VIP voter is deleted.
This term ‘VIP voter’ isn’t even coming from us. VIP voters have been created through an elaborate formal and informal system by the ECI. Were you aware that as election officials collected enumeration forms during this SIR process, citizens were being bracketed into ‘general’ and ‘VIP’ voters?
To learn more about what we found, read our full story here: No VIP Left Behind: ECI’s Drive to Guarantee a Spot For Them on the Final Voter Roll
The Reporters’ Collective is tracking SIR’s fallout beyond the voter list, into welfare schemes, ration cards and citizenship. This reporting runs only on reader generosity. If you believe this work matters, support and donate to us
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