Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 06:42pm on 23 Sep 2026,Wednesday India
Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi formally objected at least 14 times over the past 10 months to decisions linked to the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, according to an Indian Express investigation. The objections covered changes to Form 6 for new voters, deletion and restoration of names, and concerns over centralised access to the voter database. Sandhu and Joshi said some decisions were taken without their knowledge. They also questioned the legal basis for restricting access to electoral roll software. In Goa, software problems reportedly prevented officials from recording the eligibility of 97 voters. The concerns were also raised with CEC Gyanesh Kumar. (PC: X)
