'Method Of Disenfranchising Indians': Congress slams SIR
The Congress party has accused the Election Commission of disenfranchising voters through its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, alleging that millions of names have been deleted from electoral rolls. The party claims these deletions disproportionately affect economically and socially disadvantaged sections of society.
Why it matters
Accusations of electoral roll manipulation strike at the core of democratic integrity and voter rights.
The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is a “Method Of Disenfranchising Indians”, the Congress said on Monday (September 21, 2026), amid criticism over 33.13 lakh notices issued in Delhi over “discrepancies” in details furnished by people in their enumeration forms.
Most notices were issued because voter details did not match the information in the last SIR of electoral rolls, held in 2002.
Responding to a critical post over the name of the late economist Bibek Debroy appearing in the list of voters being issued notices for discrepancies, Jairam Ramesh, the Congress general secretary in-charge of communications, said “Actually at work here is a Method Of Disenfranchising Indians.”
Mr. Ramesh posted the words “Method Of Disenfranchising Indians” vertically, so that the first capital letters of the words together read, “MODI”.
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