Published Nov 12, 2026 | 5:51 PM ⚊ Updated Nov 12, 2026 | 5:51 PM
Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls
Synopsis: The People Against SIR has called for nationwide protests from 26 November to 20 December, demanding the scrapping of the SIR and restoration of every citizen’s right to vote. The platform will also hold booth-level meetings on 20 December to adopt resolutions urging the President to scrap the SIR and restore voting rights before any further elections are announced.
The People Against SIR (PA-SIR) has called for a nationwide campaign of protests from 26 November to 20 December, demanding the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, restoration of every citizen’s right to vote and comprehensive electoral reforms.
The Working Group (WG) of PA-SIR, which met in Delhi on Thursday, 12 November, decided to intensify the movement in accordance with decisions taken by the platform’s National Coordination Committee (NCC). The campaign will include demonstrations, public meetings, rallies, dharnas, People’s Parliaments and People’s Referendums, in coordination with mass organisations across the country.
The Working Group took note of the Election Commission of India’s measures to backtrack on “its illegal and unconstitutional conduct” over the past 16 months. However, it said these belated measures did not address the central issues of mass disenfranchisement and the undemocratic nature of the SIR. It reiterated its demand that the exercise be scrapped in toto.
The campaign will begin on 26 November, Constitution Day, with demonstrations across the country to assert the right to vote, the right to livelihood and the right to protest. The programme will begin with the reading of the Preamble to the Constitution.
The demonstrations will be organised independently and in coordination with organisations representing farmers, workers, agricultural workers, Adivasis, Dalits, minorities, students, youth and women.
On 10 December, Human Rights Day, PA-SIR will organise protests to uphold the right to protest. Its call is to turn every street into a Jantar Mantar and seek the re-notification of Jantar Mantar in New Delhi as a designated protest site. State-level organisational networks will mobilise people for mass congregations.
Between 26 November and 20 December, the campaign will also include public meetings and rallies, alongside audits of electoral rolls across the country.
The platform said public audits would continue and expand across States to establish that the SIR electoral rolls were wrong. These audits will form the basis of a nationwide, ground-level awareness campaign on what it described as the assault on people’s right to vote and right to protest by the Modi-Shah regime.
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On 20 December, booth-level meetings will adopt resolutions urging the President of India to scrap the SIR and restore every citizen’s right to vote before any further elections are announced.
The Working Group also said the dignity and rights of protesters of all genders must be upheld. It will remind the police that placing a citizen under house arrest to prevent the exercise of the statutory right to peaceful protest is illegal.
The platform will take up the alleged highhandedness and brutality of the Delhi Police, as well as the activities of what it described as RSS-BJP anti-social elements, with people’s representatives, governance institutions, the judiciary and political parties.
(Edited by Dese Gowda)
