New Delhi — In a striking turn during the Supreme Court hearing on Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, political activist Yogendra Yadav appeared in court with two voters who had been officially declared dead by the Election Commission (EC), reported the MSN.
Addressing a Bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, Yadav pointed out that the names of these individuals were missing from the electoral rolls due to their incorrect classification as deceased. “Please see them. These are declared as dead. They don’t appear. But they are alive,” Yadav told the court.
Senior Advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, representing the EC, dismissed the act as “drama.” Justice Bagchi, however, suggested that such incidents might be inadvertent errors, adding, “May have been an inadvertent error. Can be corrected. But your points are well taken.”
Yadav, one of the petitioners challenging the SIR, argued that the process was inherently flawed and had led to widespread voter exclusion. “Vast exclusion has already begun… the exclusion is much more than 65 lakh. This is not just a failure of implementation but a direct outcome of the SIR process,” he asserted.
The case has intensified debates over the accuracy and fairness of voter list revisions in poll-bound Bihar, with critics warning of large-scale disenfranchisement ahead of elections.
