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Supreme Court Upholds Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision Verdict

Thursday, May 28, 2026
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Supreme Court Upholds Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision Verdict

SC verdict came out on Wednesday. The Supreme Court upheld the validity of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision, or SIR , of the electoral rolls. This was a big blow for the opposition.

The BJP immediately launched a sharp attack on Congress and the INDIA bloc. They argued the opposition opposed the whole voter roll revision exercise because they were standing with what they called “illegal voters.”

BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi spoke at a press conference. He claimed the verdict completely exposed the Opposition’s narrative about the revision process.

“After that massive defeat in Bihar and West Bengal,” Trivedi said. “And after their whole scheme to cause anarchy failed, this is a constitutional defeat for the Congress.”

He called it a “political, moral and constitutional defeat” for Rahul Gandhi and the opposition alliance.

Trivedi went further. He alleged the Congress tried to blame the Election Commission after they lost elections. They accused the party of trying to mess with democratic institutions.

The court basically confirmed the exercise. It said the SIR was constitutional. It said it was totally within the Election Commission’s power. And that it was necessary for elections to be free and transparent.

The BJP leader claimed the opposition fought the SIR because it was protecting “infiltrators,” not actual voters.

Then came the sharper digs. Trivedi said the opposition parties, especially Congress, had ties rooted in China, family links in Italy, their ideology centered in England, and their propaganda hub was in America. Their voter base was linked to Bangladesh.

Pradeep Bhandari, a BJP spokesperson, echoed this. He said the verdict just exposed Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party.

“It’s clear,” Bhandari wrote on X. “Rahul Gandhi and Congress opposed this because they stood with illegal infiltrators, not with Indian voters.” He called the opposition stance an “anti-national act.”

Senior BJP leader Nalin Kohli welcomed the ruling. He urged the Opposition to stop constantly questioning the Election Commission and the democratic setup.

Meanwhile, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal stepped in. He said the Supreme Court settled all the legal questions about the SIR . He asserted that the voter list revision process would keep going, as part of future electoral reforms.

The actual ruling itself was about the petitions. The court looked at the challenges that came up regarding the revision started in Bihar and then spread elsewhere. The opposition and the petitioners had claimed the whole thing looked like some kind of NRC citizenship check. They feared wrongful voter deletions.

The bench—Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymala Bagchi, and Justice Vipul M Pancholi—ruled that the SIR was aimed at making elections fair. It was meant to strengthen the integrity of the voter lists. That was the core finding.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

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