SIR process lacks transparency: AAP

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has alleged that the Election Commission’s entire SIR process has been “designed in a non-transparent manner” as the special revision of voter rolls begins in Delhi on Tuesday, June 30, 2026.

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AAP’s Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj touched upon the issues raised by the party while deleting names from the voter list ahead of the 2025 assembly elections.

“In the past, we asked the Electoral Commission to provide us with a list of names deleted from the list along with their addresses, but they refused. We cannot verify whether the people whose names were deleted from the list actually live there. [at the addresses mentioned in the electoral roll] or not,” Mr. Bharadwaj said at a press conference at the party office.

“The entire SIR process has been planned in such a way that there is no transparency in it,” Mr. Bharadwaj added.

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls began in Delhi on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, with Chief Minister Rekha Gupta filling the counting form and urging people to take part in the democracy strengthening exercise.

More than 13,000 booth-level officers (BLOs) have started distributing counting forms to voters in 70 Assembly segments in the capital, as part of a month-long voter list verification exercise, officials said.

If any voter settles in Delhi after 2002, the person will have to submit the latest SIR details of his hometown where he is registered as a voter.