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Political Crisis Deepens Over Election Commission’s Roll Revision

Disclosure that two election commissioners recorded repeated objections has prompted the ECI to defend unanimous decisions and roll out corrective measures while opposition parties stage nationwide protests and demand the chief’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.
CEC Gyanesh Kumar, along with ECs Vivek Joshi and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu during a meeting at Nirvachan Sadan in New Delhi on Saturday.
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Overview

  • An Indian Express investigation reported that Election Commissioners S.S. Sandhu and Vivek Joshi logged at least 14 written objections between November 2025 and August 2026 about how the Special Intensive Revision was run.
  • The Election Commission held a full three-commissioner meeting on September 26 and issued a joint statement saying all SIR orders were taken unanimously, and it announced fixes including home visits by Booth Level Officers, help desks, ECINET review and deadline extensions for Delhi and Maharashtra.
  • Opposition parties led by the Congress organised nationwide protests on September 28 demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation or impeachment and calling for publication of meeting minutes and state‑wise data on names deleted or restored.
  • BJP leaders and chief ministers of BJP-ruled states publicly defended the Commission and accused the opposition of misleading the public, while civil society and some regional leaders pressed counterclaims that the SIR produced large deletions that risk disenfranchising voters.
  • The dispute focuses on how the SIR was authorised and run, including changes to Form 6, centralised control of the electoral database via ECINET and who filed appeals in state cases; the Supreme Court has previously weighed in on SIR legality and further legal and parliamentary scrutiny is expected.