Patnaik calls for review of SIR and election chief’s resignation
Former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik has called for the Special Intensive Revision exercise to be revisited and for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign. His demand followed a newspaper report alleging repeated objections by two Election Commissioners, though the supplied material does not independently verify the report.
Naveen Patnaik has called for the Special Intensive Revision exercise to be revisited and for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign. The demand follows a newspaper report about alleged internal disquiet within the Election Commission. According to the report cited in the supplied material, Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi formally objected at least 14 times over the previous 10 months to decisions and orders issued by Kumar.
Patnaik referred to that report in making his call for a review of the SIR exercise. The supplied information does not specify which decisions or orders were challenged, or whether the objections concerned the voter-roll revision itself. It also does not include a response from Kumar, Sandhu, Joshi or the Election Commission.
There is no information about the status of the alleged objections, whether they were recorded in formal dissent or what action, if any, followed them. Patnaik’s position, as presented in the available material, links the reported disagreements among election officials with his demand for a fresh look at the revision exercise and a change in the commission’s leadership. The newspaper report is cited as the basis for the claim about 14 objections.
The supplied material does not independently establish the allegations or provide further details about the SIR process.
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