SIR of voter rolls, were taken unanimously by the full commission

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi met at Nirvachan Sadan in New Delhi on Saturday afternoon and clearified that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls, were taken unanimously by the full commission.

In a release EC also announced some decisions on the SIR and the commission’s internal functioning, and laid out its position on a letter written to the Cabinet Secretary.

The controversy spans objections raised by Joshi and Sandhu on issues such as changes to Form 6 used for new voter enrolment, the functioning of the online system ECINET, the redistribution of work in the IT division, appeals in the West Bengal SIR, and the handling of cases involving voters in Goa, for instance. In an immediate response earlier, the EC had argued that internal disagreements were part of its democratic functioning.(UPDATED ON 26TH SEPTEMBER 2026)