Election Commission Row: 2 ECs Raised 14 Objections Over SIR In 10 Months

An Indian Express investigation, cited in the discussion, has triggered fresh questions over the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. The report says Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi formally objected at least 14 times over the past 10 months to decisions and orders they said were taken without their knowledge. Opposition parties have seized on the report to question the Election Commission’s functioning, while the poll body has maintained that the SIR process is fair and transparent. The transcript notes that there was no fresh response from the Election Commission to the allegations at the time of the broadcast.