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The Supreme Court connected Thursday (January 15, 2026) asked the Election Commission of India to look into a one-page enactment submitted by Barabanki MP Tanuj Punia, claiming that agrarian voters successful Uttar Pradesh acold transcend the Special Intensive Revision’s (SIR) elector number for the full State.
Appearing earlier a Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, elder advocator Salman Khurshid and advocator Shariq Ahmed pointed retired the disparity successful elector numbers pursuing 2 abstracted SIRs, 1 held by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the different by the State Election Commission, successful Uttar Pradesh.
“The Election Commission of India carried retired a SIR of the UP Assembly electoral rolls for the full State. At the aforesaid time, the State Election Commission carried retired an SIR of Panchayat (rural) elector rolls. After the Assembly SIR, the full fig of voters successful UP is shown arsenic 12.56 crore, reflecting a simplification of astir 2.89 crore voters. After the Panchayat SIR, the fig of agrarian voters unsocial is shown arsenic 12.69 crore, reflecting an summation of astir 40 lakh voters. These 2 figures cannot co-exist. Rural voters cannot transcend the full voters of the State,” the enactment pointed out.
Mr. Khurshid argued that the anomaly impacted the precise credibility of the SIR process, and had a nonstop bearing connected the close to ballot and escaped and just elections.
“The Election Commission indispensable clarify which SIR is correct, and connected what basis, since some cannot beryllium right,” helium submitted.
In a abstracted hearing, the Bench asked the ECI to see extending the deadline for the filing of objections by those excluded successful the draught electoral rotation successful Kerala.
Senior advocator Ranjit Kumar, appearing for the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which leads the LDF authorities successful Kerala, said astir 24 lakh radical were excluded from the draught roll.
Mr. Kumar said the database of deleted names and details were not publically accessible. He said radical request to cheque the database to spot if they had been excluded successful bid to record objections. The tribunal ordered the EC to publish, if not already done, the database successful panchayat and different section nationalist offices too uploading it connected its website.
