{
  "id": 8848526,
  "title": "Advani, Jaishankar, Rekha, Kejriwal: Why so many VIP voters got SIR notices? What triggered them - Rules explained",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/advani-jaishankar-rekha-kejriwal-why-so-many-vip-voters-got-sir",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-21T05:12:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Live Mint",
    "slug": "live-mint",
    "url": "https://www.livemint.com/news/india/advani-jaishankar-rekha-kejriwal-why-so-many-vip-voters-got-sir-notices-what-triggered-them-rules-explained-11789964479199.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In the national capital, a significant number of prominent figures, including LK Advani, S Jaishankar, and Rekha Gupta, have received notices for discrepancies in their voter details under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. The SIR exercise, which resulted in the publication of draft rolls for over 97 lakh voters, has led to the issuance of 33.13 lakh notices for discrepancies in the details provided by individuals in their enumeration forms. Most of these discrepancies stem from voter details not matching with the information from the last SIR conducted in 2002. In response to the notices, the Election Commissioner of India, SS Sandhu, has had his details validated and his name included in the final electoral roll. The Delhi Chief Electoral Officer's office emphasized that the notices issued are system-generated and serve to correct data in the ECINET system, and that there is no crisis as some have suggested.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}