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Kharge Alarms Over 13.3 Crore Voters Deleted From Electoral Rolls: "Who Was Deleted?"
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News18•30-09-2026, 13:05
Kharge Alarms Over 13.3 Crore Voters Deleted From Electoral Rolls: "Who Was Deleted?"
- •Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress president, raised concerns about the deletion of 13.3 crore voters from electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
- •Kharge's remarks were made at an INDIA bloc meeting in New Delhi, where 19 opposition parties discussed a joint agitation plan over the SIR issue.
- •An Indian Express report revealed that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi objected multiple times to SIR decisions made without their knowledge.
- •Kharge emphasized that the principle of "one person, one vote, one value" is under serious threat, and expressed "grave concerns" about the Election Commission's functioning.
- •He called for transparency, stating that no genuine Indian citizen should be excluded from the electoral process and demanded to know who was deleted and why.
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Mallikarjun Kharge stated that 13.3 crore voters were blatantly removed from the voter lists under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi objected on record at least 14 times over 10 months because decisions and orders concerning the SIR exercise were issued without their knowledge.
Nineteen parties of the opposition INDIA bloc met in New Delhi to discuss an action plan for a joint agitation over the issue of voter deletions during the SIR exercise.
