Overview
- The joint letter was sent to Chief Justice Surya Kant on Tuesday and was signed by 23 opposition parties and one Independent MP, with the Aam Aadmi Party and DMK added to the list of signatories.
- The memorandum accuses the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of flawed and uneven implementation and seeks judicial scrutiny of the commission’s conduct.
- Opposition leaders point to large-scale deletions in the SIR—reports cite roughly six crore names removed nationally and about 65 lakh in Bihar—and to long backlogs of appeals in state tribunals.
- The SIR is a house-to-house verification exercise run by Booth Level Officers to remove ineligible entries from voter rolls, and critics say differences in how states applied those checks created risks of wrongful exclusions and practical harms such as trouble accessing welfare or services.
- The move comes after the Supreme Court upheld the SIR’s legality on May 27, political responses have been sharply divided with the BJP dismissing the letter, and the text of the opposition’s representation has not been released so it remains unclear what legal steps the court will take next.