Justice Ujjal Bhuyan of the Supreme Court said any process disenfranchising millions of citizens is intrinsically arbitrary, violates Articles 14 and 326, and that Article 326 cannot be tinkered with by any authority or condoned by any court.
Dushyant Dave has warned that universal adult franchise is being eroded through SIR, criticising the Election Commission and Supreme Court and revealing that he and his wife received voter-list notices.
Yogendra Yadav raised serious concerns over the deletion of 65 lakh names from the Bihar draft voter list, calling it a major threat to voter rights and alleging that the “real game begins now” with electoral manipulation.
Former CJI D.Y. Chandrachud told his views on the ‘One Nation, One Election’ initiative to a Parliamentary committee Indian voters are not naive and rejected claims against simultaneous polls, stating staggered elections are not an immutable part of the Constitution or its original design.
