Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Wednesday (September 2, 2026) alleged that the SIR being carried out by the Election Commission is an exercise aimed at helping the BJP win elections and urged the Supreme Court to stop the “bulk deletions” taking place under it.
Because the opposition is in power, so the BLO is objecting, luckily in this particular case in Jharkhand, even the BLO (Booth Level Officer) is objecting. The former Union Minister also alleged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that is ongoing in various States is aimed at helping the BJP win elections. “And this is going to happen in every state where an election takes place.
But where they are in power, who will object?” he said. His remarks come a day after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi slammed the Election Commission as “BJP Kursi Bachao Aayog” and “Vote Chori Aayog”.
Mr. Sibal’s remarks came over a report in a national daily which claimed that in Godda district of Jharkhand, BJP agents are seeking to delete voters, mostly from the minority community, with Booth Level Officers, who are employees of the State government headed by the JMM-Congress, raising red flags over the issue. In a post on X, Mr. BJP agents: Target Muslims, seek bulk deletions. Supreme Court needs to stop this! “SIR is an exercise: To manipulate the voters list. So if this is the way things are going to be done, what’s the point of having an election?
Sibal said, “Politics of exclusion. Help BJP win elections!” the Independent Rajya Sabha MP said. “And those people have been interviewed and they have said [they’ve] been living there for years, their families have been living there for years. It has been found that those Muslims whose names were sought to be deleted by bulk forms by BJP workers were actually living there for years, many of them ever since Independence,” he said. “And therefore this is a very serious issue, and if courts don’t take care of this issue, if courts just believe that the SIR exercise is by a neutral Election Commission of India, then I think we are in deep trouble – this democracy will be in deep trouble,” Mr. Sibal said.
