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A constituency-by-constituency comparison of the SIR voter-roll purge with the 2026 results shows the TVK's victory rising in near-perfect step with the deletions: the deeper the cuts, the bigger its wins, including all ten seats where over 80,000 names vanished.
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Demonstrations in Delhi and Mumbai, an NSUI symbolic protest, and a planned Rajouri march have turned a paperwork exercise into a fight over who gets to vote.
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Around 300 INDIA bloc MPs marched from Parliament to the Election Commission on Tuesday demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign over the SIR voter-roll revision; leaders were briefly detained.
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Pre-printed Form-7s, unsigned forms and a disputed deletion bid against about 30 Musheerabad electors have put Telangana's SIR under scrutiny. Officials rejected the forms and ordered action on false declarations; an FIR remains unconfirmed.
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Madurantakam recorded 83.86% polling and Dharapuram 78.53% by 5.30 pm in Tuesday's by-elections, the first electoral test for the TVK government. Counting is on October 9.
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When MPs marching to the Election Commission are detained 100 metres from its door, the institution has not defended itself; it has confessed its fear. A voter roll that citizens cannot question is not a register. It is a verdict delivered in advance.
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Around 260 opposition MPs and leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, were detained in New Delhi on Tuesday after police stopped the INDIA bloc's march to the Election Commission demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over alleged voter-roll deletions.
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Voting began at 7 a.m. on Tuesday in the Dharapuram and Madurantakam Assembly bypolls, with brisk turnout reported in rural booths. The contests, forced by defections, are being fought under persistent allegations of cash and gift distribution that the ruling TVK has failed to dispel.
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Two sitting Election Commissioners objected 14 times. The Supreme Court said it never approved the modified Form 6. And still the Commission answers every question with repetition as though it were evidence. When the ruled must impeach the referee, the republic is on notice.
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Former civil servants and activists tried to serve a 'public impeachment notice' on CEC Gyanesh Kumar over the SIR exercise, but police barricades sealed every road to the Election Commission. They held an emergency press conference instead.
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Rahul Gandhi accused CEC Gyanesh Kumar of altering Form 6 'illegally and unilaterally', calling it a 'criminal assault on our democracy', hours after the Supreme Court observed it never approved changes to the form. The ECI rebutted the charge; the Opposition plans an impeachment-motion notice.
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The Congress will invite the DMK and AAP to an INDIA bloc rally on November 1 and run a nationwide 'Vote bachao, desh bachao' campaign from October 10 to 20 — with village-level chaupals to follow — to help voters deleted during the SIR get back on the electoral rolls.
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The Supreme Court refused to suspend CEC Gyanesh Kumar — but its warning that non-unanimous ECI decisions can be 'taken back' turns the next hearing into a trial of the Commission's own records. Power that hides behind procedure has met procedure as the weapon.
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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to suspend CEC Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of unilateral decisions during the voter-roll revision, saying it cannot pass orders on newspaper reports alone. But it issued notices and warned that decisions taken without the required unanimity could be recalled.
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Justice Ujjal Bhuyan says the right to vote is not a mere statutory right granted by Parliament. The warning lands as Karnataka's fake voter-deletion racket unfolds, 34 lakh appeals pile up in Bengal, and a new ERONET system lets officials clear SIR notices without documents or hearings.
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From Karnataka's faked death certificates to Bengal's 34 lakh pending appeals, the roll revision has become an exercise in subtraction. Justice Bhuyan's warning that the vote is not Parliament's favour arrives not a moment too soon.
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A vigilance probe into the CEC's past, a Thackeray-led march demanding his resignation, and rolling opposition protests: India's Election Commission has become the controversy it is supposed to stand above — and an umpire on trial cannot certify a fair contest.
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Raj Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray led the 'Virat Garjana Morcha' from Metro Cinema to Mumbai's BMC headquarters on Sunday, demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls; Congress and NCP(SP) leaders joined the march.
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Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala on Sunday ordered a fresh VACB inquiry into allegations against CEC Gyanesh Kumar from his 2006 tenure as PWD Secretary — reviving a two-decade-old case around a Malaysian engineer's death and claims the original probe was derailed by outside pressure.
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On the final day of campaigning for the October 6 bypolls, Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay travels from Coimbatore to Dharapuram on Sunday, with police deploying some 2,000 personnel along a route through the city's narrow neighbourhoods. The bypolls — manufactured by the defections of two AIADMK...
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TVK will petition the Election Commission over remarks allegedly made by DMK president M.K. Stalin and Udhayanidhi Stalin about TVK candidate Sathyabama in the Dharapuram bypoll campaign, minister R. Nirmal Kumar announced on October 3. The exact words remain unreleased.
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Seven parties met at Sathyamurthy Bhavan, Chennai, as Vijay's TVK formally joined the INDIA bloc. The meeting fixed district-level 'Save Democracy' demonstrations on October 13-14, a joint Chennai protest on the 15th, and an MPs' march to the EC headquarters on October 6.
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Mumbai Police on Saturday booked CJP organisers and 400-500 supporters over an unauthorised Shivaji Park protest demanding the CEC's resignation — a day after a 75-year-old attendee died at the venue. Rahul Gandhi announced a 'Satyagraha' portal for citizens facing injustice.
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Police detained several demonstrators in Delhi on Saturday as Gen Z-led protests against the voter-roll revision entered a second day, with protesters demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
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TVK minister C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar announced on Saturday that the party will lodge a formal complaint with the Election Commission over alleged body-shaming remarks by M.K. Stalin about its Dharapuram candidate P. Sathyabama, escalating the bypoll row days before polling.
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The Supreme Court says doubts about EVMs come from electoral defeat. But the ballot battle is about deleted voters, bulk Form-7 filings and a Commission whose own members raised 14 objections — a system where the voter, not the machine, is being tampered with.
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After a meeting of 21 opposition parties, the INDIA bloc will march to the Election Commission on October 6 demanding a return to paper ballots and the removal of CEC Gyanesh Kumar. Kharge says 13.3 crore voters were deleted; the Supreme Court dismissed a plea seeking ballots.
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Karnataka CM D.K. Shivakumar and his cabinet staged a five-hour sit-in outside the state election office over mass Form-7 filings seeking voter deletions. The CEO ordered an inquiry and action against false filings, while the BJP calls the five FIRs against its workers political persecution.
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Karnataka's Form-7 scandal shows disenfranchisement no longer needs a lathi charge — it needs a printer, a party office, and a pliable process. When the roll itself becomes the weapon, the republic's first duty is to disarm it.
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Across Karnataka, pre-printed Form-7 applications seeking the bulk deletion of Muslim voters' names have surfaced during the SIR of electoral rolls — from Kodagu to Belagavi to Bhalki. FIRs allege forgery and conspiracy; the CEO has ordered legal action. The BJP calls it legitimate verification.
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Escalating the Dharapuram row, TVK minister C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar said the party will complain to the Election Commission about M.K. Stalin's alleged remarks about its candidate P. Sathyabama, as the bypoll campaign enters its final stretch. No transcript exists; the DMK has not responded.
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On Gandhi Jayanti, more than 700 citizens were detained in Delhi for asking whose names were cut from the voter list. The state did not debate the voter roll — it deleted the debate. A sharp note on what it means when the referee of democracy answers questions with barricades.
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Delhi Police denied permission for the Gandhi Jayanti protest at Jantar Mantar against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged voter-list irregularities — then detained more than 700 people, shut metro stations and cut the internet for 12 hours. AAP leaders, student activists and CPI(M) leaders were among those taken away in buses.
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A ground report documents how over 47 lakh voters in Bihar and nearly 91 lakh in West Bengal were struck off the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision, leaving them unable to vote — as Left parties marched across Tamil Nadu demanding the Chief Election Commissioner's removal over what they call mass disenfranchisement.
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When the Election Commission deletes voters by the crore and the burden of proof falls on the poorest, the electoral roll stops being a list of citizens and becomes a filter for them.
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The Lawyers' Association for Constitution has constituted a five-member commission of former judges, chaired by Justice M.B. Lokur, to examine the SIR's constitutional validity, methodology and impact on voters.
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Karnataka CM D.K. Shivakumar staged a five-hour dharna at the CEO's office in Bengaluru, alleging a conspiracy to delete around 4.5 million eligible voters — poor, minority, Dalit and backward communities — through bulk pre-printed Form-7 applications. Hours later, the EC ordered action against false filers across all 224 constituencies.
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