Delhi SIR: INDIA bloc demands exercise rollback, alleges large-scale voter exclusion without verification

Residents of Nehru Kutia, Malka Ganj, seen at Special Intensive Revision Camp, New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma

The INDIA bloc on Wednesday (October 28, 2026) demanded the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the national capital, alleging that voters had been wrongly excluded and that survey findings point to errors in voter records.

At a press conference at the Press Club of India, the Opposition bloc's Delhi unit members alleged that the exercise had disproportionately affected poor workers, tenants and residents of unauthorised settlements. They demanded the restoration of eligible voters' names on the rolls.

The demands come ahead of the Congress-led INDIA bloc's November 1 rally at Ramlila Maidan against alleged electoral irregularities.

The CPI(M)'s Delhi unit said its survey across Assembly constituencies found instances of voters being marked as permanently shifted without officials meeting them in person.