Archive · 6 Oct 2026
AISA Leader Urges Unity Against BJP Over Voter Roll Deletions
AISA leader Neha Bora said political groups and members of the public should join together over changes to voter lists.
These changes are part of an exercise called the SIR.
Bora said many people’s names had been removed and demanded that the exercise be stopped.
She also asked people to attend a protest in New Delhi on October 10.
CPI(ML) Liberation leader Dipankar Bhattacharya called for election chief Gyanesh Kumar to resign.
He also said the law governing appointments to the Election Commission should be scrapped.
Bhattacharya said a survey by his party found wrongful deletions in some Bihar polling booths.
The report gives the leaders’ allegations and demands but does not include a response from the government or the Election Commission.
AISA president Neha Bora urged political groups beyond the INDIA bloc to unite over voter-name deletions during the SIR exercise.
Bora called on civil society to join a protest planned by the Cockroach Janta Party in New Delhi on October 10.
She alleged that 13 crore names had been deleted and called for the entire SIR exercise to be scrapped.
CPI(ML) Liberation leader Dipankar Bhattacharya demanded Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s removal and cancellation of the 2023 appointments law.
Bhattacharya cited a party survey in 10 Bihar constituencies that he said found 17 per cent wrongful deletions in the booths surveyed.
- Who
- AISA president Neha Bora and CPI(ML) Liberation national general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya.
- What
- They called for unity against the SIR voter-roll exercise; Bora urged participation in a protest, while Bhattacharya demanded Gyanesh Kumar’s removal.
- When
- The report is dated October 6; the protest was called for October 10. No year is specified in the article.
- Where
- The press conference was in Kolkata; the planned protest was in New Delhi.
- Why
- They allege that the SIR exercise has improperly removed voters’ names and undermined voting rights.
Critics of the SIR
Government and Election Commission
Voter-list revisions
Critics of the SIR
Bora and Bhattacharya alleged that the SIR had wrongly removed voters’ names and demanded that the exercise be cancelled.
Government and Election Commission
The article does not provide a response from the government or the Election Commission.
Protests and accountability
Critics of the SIR
Bora called for a wider alliance and urged civil society to join the October 10 protest; Bhattacharya demanded Gyanesh Kumar’s removal.
Government and Election Commission
The article does not provide the government’s or the Election Commission’s position on the protest or these demands.
- AISA president
- Neha Bora
- CPI(ML) Liberation leader
- Dipankar Bhattacharya
- Protest date
- October 10
- Protest location
- New Delhi
- Names allegedly deleted
- Bora claimed 13 crore names had been deleted during the SIR exercise.
- Bihar survey claim
- Bhattacharya said a party survey found 17 per cent wrongful deletions across 102 booths in 10 of the 20 seats his party contested.
- Demands
- The leaders called for the SIR exercise to be cancelled and for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign.