As Supreme Court upholds SIR’s legality, Chief Election Commissioner says ECI will always be with voters

As the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls done by the Election Commission of India (ECI), Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar connected Wednesday (May 27, 2026) said the ECI “was, is and would always” beryllium with the voters.

“The archetypal measurement for federation gathering is voting. Therefore, each national of India who has completed 18 years of property should go an elector and should ever ballot successful accordance with the Constitution, electoral laws, rules and instructions issued determination in,” the CEC said successful a video message.

“The EC was, is and volition ever beryllium with the voters,” helium added.

The Supreme Court connected Wednesday (May 27, 2026) upheld the SIR of electoral rolls arsenic an workout done by the ECI successful furtherance of the Constitutional rule of escaped and just elections.

A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant dismissed the petitioners’ presumption that SIR was a surreptitious, backdoor determination to behaviour citizenship screening successful the sanction of cleaning up the electoral rotation disconnected aliens.