With the Election Commission of India (ECI) deciding to provide another opportunity to electors left out of draft voter lists in seven States where SIR is ongoing, the Congress on Friday (November 6, 2026) termed it a “U-turn” and said this is a “belated admission that wrongful deletion and exclusion” has taken place.
The Election Commission of India has just issued instructions to include left-out voters in the on-going SIR in seven states/UTs.
Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said, “Another day, yet another U-turn. ” “This is a belated admission that wrongful deletion and exclusion has indeed taken place under the ASDD (Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate) category,” Mr. Ramesh said on X.
The ECI is carrying out corrective-after-corrective following the nationwide outrage and anger over SIR which has robbed over 13 crore Indians of their constitutional right to vote, he said. “Every new set of orders begs the question: what was the point of this bureaucratic mess that every Indian has been put through? These repeated clarifications and amendments actually expose the true intent of the diabolical PM-HM (Narendra Modi-Amit Shah). They have been caught out,” Mr.
Ramesh said.
