The political showdown over Uttar Pradesh's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has intensified, with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath claiming that 1.27 crore Hindu voters are missing from the voter list. Yogi has challenged Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to demand an SIR rollback. Akhilesh, in turn, has questioned the source of Yogi's figures, alleged preferential access to Election Commission data and called for Aadhaar-linked voting, biometric verification and metal voter ID cards.