SIR row: Congress' Khera questions EC over Form 6, says Bengal & Bihar polls ‘illegal’

Congress leader Pawan Khera has criticized the Election Commission's response to concerns over Form 6, claiming that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was based on an illegal change to the form. Khera argued that the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, could not be changed without being amended in Parliament, questioning whether the Election Commission had addressed the objections raised by Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.

The controversy centers on the requirement for new voters to provide details linking themselves or their parents or grandparents to electoral rolls from the previous SIR, which the Election Commission maintains was an additional declaration prescribed under its SIR orders, despite objections from Sandhu and Joshi.

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