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The Election Commission Under Scrutiny
For much of 2026 the Election Commission of India spent as much energy defending itself as running elections: a nationwide revision of the voter rolls, mass transfers of officers in poll-bound states, and an unresolved challenge to how election commissioners are appointed all landed at once, even as the Supreme Court upheld the Commission's power to clean the rolls.
Last updated 17 August 20267 min read
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Supreme Court refused to interfere with 2002 as the SIR base year, rejecting a plea for a 1993 baseline in Sikkim; Telangana published its draft roll, with about 92 lakh electors to get notices before the 19 October final list.
- Election Commission of India
- SIR
- electoral rolls
- Article 324
- Surya Kant
- CEC appointment Act 2023
- Gyanesh Kumar
- Representation of the People Act
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