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Who Protects the Voter from Blind Bureaucracy?

By OSWALD PEREIRA on October 3, 2026, in Talking Tree

The SIR controversy is no longer merely about electoral rolls. It is about what happens when an institution entrusted with protecting the franchise exercises the power to exclude citizens from it without sufficient explanation. OSWALD PEREIRA reports

A name missing from an ordinary government record may be corrected later. But a name missing from an electoral roll can prevent a citizen from voting if the mistake is not rectified in time.

That is why the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls cannot be treated as an ordinary bureaucratic exercise. When the State removes a citizen from the electoral roll, the institution making that decision must be able to explain why. The burden cannot rest on the citizen to discover what happened and fight to get his vote back in the rolls.

That is the central issue in the present agitation against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The demand for his resignation may seem justified by political parties and citizens. But the more fundamental question is whether the SIR process has protected every eligible voter or created a system in which legitimate voters can fall through the cracks without adequate explanation or an effective remedy.

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