The Modi government is falsely claiming that the court has endorsed the process and is rushing ahead—uploading forms without photos, documents, or even signatures. Independent YouTubers like Ajit Anjum, who exposed this, are being targeted with legal cases.
Published Jul 15, 2025 | 12:50 PM ⚊ Updated Jul 15, 2025 | 12:50 PM
Common documents like Aadhaar cards, ration cards, voter ID, and NREGA job cards are not accepted, even though the Election Commission itself issued the voter IDs.
Synopsis: The Election Commission has ordered a Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls across the country. This is not about voter verification but enforcing the NRC through the backdoor.
It is a sinister plan by the Modi government to strip poor citizens of all faiths—Dalits, Adivasis, minorities, women—of their citizenship and reduce them to second-class citizens or, in the case of Muslims, expel them from the country altogether.
The claim that the BJP would have changed the Constitution if it had won 400 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections holds little meaning now. Even without securing 400 seats, the Modi government is gradually implementing plans that undermine the Constitution.
When it had a strong majority in 2019, it attempted to implement the NRC (National Register of Citizens) that would revoke the citizenship of the poor and minorities of the country, particularly Muslims. Through this, it sought to declare India a Hindu (specifically upper-caste Hindu) nation and reduce all others to second-class citizens.
As part of this plan, in the 2020–21 census, every Indian citizen was required to produce documents to prove they were born in India. Those born before 1987 had to show proof of their date and place of birth; those born between 1987–2004 had to show proof of birth along with documentation proving that one parent was an Indian citizen; and those born after 2004 had to show both their birth records and documents proving both parents were Indian citizens.
In this process, non-Muslims who lacked documents would be granted citizenship through the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act), a fact that Union Home Minister Amit Shah explicitly admitted, revealing the communal intent behind this plan. But even non-Muslims had to prove they were refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Afghanistan to benefit from the CAA—something most undocumented Indian citizens could not do.
In reality, Assam is the only state where the NRC was implemented. Among its 30 million residents, 1.9 million lacked the required documents. Of them, 1.2 million were poor Hindus, tribals, and women. Because of this, the BJP government in Assam scrapped the NRC process entirely.
In 2019–20, as the communal NPR-NRC-CAA plans of the BJP government took shape, patriotic Muslims were the first to resist, followed by enlightened sections of the poor across the country, who launched mass protests resembling a second freedom struggle. When Covid-19 hit in March 2020, the Modi government was forced to pause the census and the NPR-NRC processes.
Now, in 2026, the Modi government plans to conduct the census but has not clarified whether it will include NPR-NRC-related questions. While some optimists speculate that the BJP has abandoned the plan due to a lack of majority and past resistance, the government has instead quietly initiated an NRC-like process through the Election Commission in Bihar, where elections are due in November.
This directive from the Election Commission has been challenged in the Supreme Court. On 10 July, the Court acknowledged the legitimacy of the petitioners’ concerns and scheduled a detailed hearing for 28 July, identifying flaws in the process.
Yet, the Election Commission, under the Modi government’s control, has ignored this and on 13 July, issued orders to conduct a similar NRC-style process across all states and Union Territories in India.
Thus, a covert national NRC operation has begun.
Elections to the Bihar State Assembly must be held by November 2025. As per Articles 324, 325, and 326 of the Constitution, it is the Election Commission’s responsibility to conduct elections and ensure voting rights for all Indians aged 18 and above. The Commission normally prepares the electoral rolls through Summary Revisions (before each election) and Intensive Revisions (from time to time).
The current Special Intensive Revision (SIR), being undertaken in Bihar, has no legal basis in the 1960 Electoral Roll Rules.
In a typical Summary Revision, voters already registered in previous elections remain on the list, and only newly eligible voters are added. Deletions occur only after investigation of specific complaints. The burden of proof is on the authorities—not the voters.
Intensive Revisions, conducted once in many years, are also not done before elections. The last such revision in Bihar was in 2003. Since then, five Lok Sabha and as many state elections have been held.
Yet, after the Home Ministry declared on 4 June that the 2026 census would go ahead (without clarifying the inclusion of NPR-NRC), the Election Commission suddenly ordered a Special Intensive Revision of the entire voter list in Bihar on 24 June.
Under this new SIR directive:
This is not a voter list revision—it’s a citizenship verification exercise, which is the Home Ministry’s job, not the Election Commission’s.
Also:
These are NRC conditions, not standard voter list rules.
Even worse, the Commission has listed only 11 acceptable documents—mostly accessible to upper-caste, educated, wealthy people (E.g., birth certificates, school certificates, government job IDs, passports, property records). Most of Bihar’s poor—Dalits, tribals, women—lack these documents.
Common documents like Aadhaar cards, ration cards, voter ID, and NREGA job cards are not accepted, even though the Election Commission itself issued the voter IDs.
An estimated two to three crore (20–30 million) poor Biharis—Dalits, women, minorities—face the risk of losing not just their voting rights, but their citizenship.
Thus, these unconstitutional actions of the Election Commission are being challenged in the Supreme Court.
What did the Supreme Court say?
Petitioners (opposition parties, ADR, PUCL) argued that:
A two-judge bench led by Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia accepted the seriousness of the matter, noting that it affects the fundamental democratic right to vote. It set 28 July for a detailed hearing—before the draft voter list is finalised on 1 August—and recommended the Commission accept Aadhaar, ration card, and voter ID as valid documents.
However, the Modi government is falsely claiming that the court has endorsed the process and is rushing ahead—uploading forms without photos, documents, or even signatures. Independent YouTubers like Ajit Anjum, who exposed this, are being targeted with legal cases.
This is not SIR across the country—it is NRC across the country
While the Supreme Court is still questioning Bihar’s SIR, the Election Commission has ordered similar actions nationwide. This is not about voter verification but enforcing the NRC through the backdoor.
It is a sinister plan by the Modi government to strip poor citizens of all faiths—Dalits, Adivasis, minorities, women—of their citizenship and reduce them to second-class citizens or, in the case of Muslims, expel them from the country altogether.
India must wake up once again. Just as in 2019–20, the people must rise in massive democratic protests to defeat this disguised NRC being imposed in the name of SIR.
(Views are personal. Edited by Majnu Babu).
