Telangana Congress State-wide protests against ECI’s SIR handling on September 28
The Telangana Congress party is organizing state-wide protests against the Election Commission of India regarding the handling of electoral roll revisions. They are demanding transparency and an audit trail for changes made to voter databases.
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Concerns over the integrity of electoral rolls are central to democratic processes and public trust in election management bodies.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud said the Congress would organise protests at all district headquarters across the State on Monday (September 28, 2026) against what he described as the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) mishandling of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
Mr. Goud demanded that the ECI publicly clarify the objections reportedly raised by two Election Commissioners over various aspects of the SIR of electoral rolls. He said the Commission’s functioning should be transparent and accountable.
Referring to reports that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had raised objections on 14 occasions over the past 10 months on issues relating to electoral roll revision, he said the objections covered registration of new voters, deletion of names, maintenance of voter databases and electoral roll software, and lakhs of people in Telangana faced these problems.
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