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New Delhi: As the Opposition continues to demand Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Saturday (September 26) that old Form 6 will be used during the non-Special Intensive Revision (non-SIR) period, a committee will review the functioning of ECINET involving an independent expert from IIT/IIIT and a special drive will be immediately launched to help electors to add their names to the voter list who have been removed in SIR.

“The declaration attached to Form 6 for SIR has been upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court. For non-SIR period, the Forms applicable as per Rules (the Registration of Electors Rules 1960) will be used,” the ECI said in a press release post a meeting attended by CEC Kumar and Election Commissioners (ECs) Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.

Notably, the announcements come after The Indian Express’s Ritika Chopra reported that in the last ten months, Sandhu and Joshi formally objected for as many as 14 times to various aspects of the controversial SIR exercise.

IE report revealed that in May this........

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