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Election Commission Confronted by Protests After Roll‑Revision Revelations

Revelations of internal dissents, procedural IT changes and alleged mass deletions have prompted protests, prompted the ECI to announce corrective steps, prompting opposition moves to seek CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s removal.

Sharing clips of the protest, the Indian Youth Congress, the youth of the grand old party, wrote on X, “In Agra, Congress workers smeared black ink on the house of “Gyanesh Gaddar”.”
In the ongoing SIR in Delhi and Maharashtra, ECI extended every deadline by roughly a month.
Police use water cannon to disperse Congress workers during a protest rally against the State Election Commission over alleged unilateral decisions by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in Patna on Friday.
CEC Gyanesh Kumar, along with ECs Vivek Joshi and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu during a meeting at Nirvachan Sadan in New Delhi on Saturday.

Overview

  • The Election Commission held a three‑member meeting on September 26 that announced a review of its ECINET portal, restored the old Form 6 for non‑SIR periods and extended deadlines in Delhi and Maharashtra as partial corrective steps.
  • Investigative reports say two election commissioners logged at least 14 written dissents between November 2025 and August 2026 that flagged centralised IT control, automated notices and sidelining of local electoral officers during the Special Intensive Revision.
  • Opposition parties led by the Congress staged nationwide protests on September 27–28 and called a Working Committee meeting to plan a strategy that includes pursuing removal or impeachment of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
  • The BJP and several state chief ministers publicly defended the Commission, the ECI said all SIR orders had unanimous approval and the Supreme Court has upheld the contested Form 6 change, while critics say the exercise removed millions of names.
  • Key accountability questions remain unresolved — who authorised certain appeals, the role of senior ECI IT and administrative officials and whether the SIR should be frozen or earlier rolls restored — making legal and parliamentary battles likely and leaving many voters facing extra document hurdles.