Poll panel addresses SIR row after Gyanesh Kumar meets fellow commissioners

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar met Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi in New Delhi amid reports of differences over the SIR exercise. The poll body then issued a note addressing SIR decisions, new voter enrolment and its internal functioning.

New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi met at Nirvachan Sadan in New Delhi on Saturday. The Election Commission then issued a press note addressing questions about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, enrolment of new voters and its internal functioning.

The note, accompanied by a photograph of the three commissioners, came days after The Indian Express reported........

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