Election Commission making a mockery of the Constitution: Dipankar

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Thursday (October 1, 2026) slammed the Election Commission of India (ECI) over alleged illegalities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

Mr. Bhattacharya said that reports emerging indicated that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar took decisions within the three-member Election Commission without the consent of the other two members.

He said this during a Jan Sunwai (public hearing) in Patna on the issue of wrongful SIR deletions in Bihar. The hearing was organised by the Bihar State CPI (ML) Liberation and was based on the findings of a voter verification survey conducted by the party in the districts of Siwan, Gopalganj, Bhojpur, Buxar, Patna, Arwal and Jahanabad.

Mr. Bhattacharya mentioned that the door-to-door survey has covered 102 booths in the ten constituencies, which include Bhore (SC), Darauli (SC), Jeeradei, Paliganj, Ara, Agiaon (SC), Tarari, Dumraon, Arwal and Ghosi.

“The survey teams physically verified lists of deleted voters in these 102 booths, taking into account SIR deletions as well as pre-SIR deletions between January 2024 and June 2025. Among the 9,288 voters deleted in 50 of these 102 booths during the SIR process, 1,550 voters were found alive and residing at their addresses, thus confirming at least 17% error in SIR deletions,” Mr. Bhattacharya said.