LK Advani, S Jaishankar and Jagdeep Dhankhar get SIR notices: Report
LK Advani, S Jaishankar and Jagdeep Dhankhar obtain SIR notices: Report Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal.
LK Advani, S Jaishankar and Jagdeep Dhankhar obtain SIR notices: Report Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal.
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- 6 min read New Delhi Updated: Sep 20, 2026 11: 20 PM IST.
- (From left) Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar, former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, and former Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar.
- The notices were issued after draft electoral rolls covering more than 97 lakh voters were published.
LK Advani, S Jaishankar and Jagdeep Dhankhar obtain SIR notices: Report Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal. This person received a notice along with his wife under the "unmapped with last SIR" category, criticised the Election Commission and described the exercise as "special intensive deletion" of votes. By: Express Web Desk.
(From left) Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar, former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, and former Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons, File).
Former deputy prime minister L K Advani, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar and Election Commissioner S S Sandhu are among a number of prominent voters who have been issued notices over "discrepancies" in details submitted during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, news agency PTI noted citing authorities on Sunday.
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal. This person received a notice along with his wife under the "unmapped with last SIR" category, criticised the Election Commission and described the exercise as "special intensive deletion" of votes. Why SIR notices were sent.
In practice, the notices were issued after draft electoral rolls covering more than 97 lakh voters were published. As part of the exercise, 33.13 lakh notices were being issued over "discrepancies" in details provided in enumeration forms. In most cases, the voter information did not match records from the previous SIR conducted in 2002.
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