Honest rolls result in honest polls: CEC Gyanesh Kumar | India Information
2 min learnNew DelhiUp to date: Might 30, 2026 08:13 PM IST
Days after the Supreme Court docket dominated that the Election Fee’s Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was constitutional, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Saturday mentioned “honest rolls result in honest polls”.
In what was his first public remarks for the reason that apex courtroom pronounced its judgment on Wednesday, Kumar underlined the significance of “honest” electoral rolls. He was addressing a convention of authorized counsels representing the ECI, on the EC’s India Worldwide Institute of Democracy and Election Administration (IIIDEM) in Dwarka.
“Honest rolls result in honest polls. That’s the second immediately and India is in it,” Kumar mentioned.
The convention started on Saturday with demonstrations and briefings by EC officers on “electoral roll administration, SIR, and polling and counting procedures, showcasing the transparency, accuracy, and safeguards that uphold the integrity of India’s electoral course of,” the EC mentioned in a put up on X. Kumar, together with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, addressed the authorized counsels.
The EC had on June 24, 2025 ordered the SIR of electoral rolls of the nation, breaking from the observe of the previous 20 years the place rolls have been summarily revised yearly and earlier than every election. In an intensive revision, the rolls are ready afresh. The EC’s order and the unprecedented methodology adopted by it had been challenged within the Supreme Court docket by civil society teams and Opposition leaders. The courtroom dominated on Wednesday that the train was constitutional.
The SIR has been accomplished in 10 states and three Union Territories thus far, resulting in the electoral rolls being trimmed by 5.58 crore.
