India's Supreme Court agreed on 29 September 2026 to hear next week a petition seeking to suspend Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, who is accused of acting unilaterally in the name of the Election Commission (the constitutional body that runs India's elections) instead of deciding matters with the two other commissioners as the law requires. The same day, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge demanded Kumar's removal over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, and called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resign for allegedly pressuring him; these allegations have not been proven. The dispute matters because it questions the independence of the body overseeing the world's largest elections.
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Speaking at a Congress Working Committee meeting in Delhi, Kharge laid out five demands, including that all data on changes to the electoral rolls be made public, that voters whose names were deleted be given a chance to appeal, and that all parties receive the rolls in a simple format in time. He also called for an independent, time-bound probe wherever serious anomalies are found and said the party would take the issue to the streets and to Parliament. Separately, Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh attacked a Home Ministry-led demography panel that has reportedly sought 15 years of religion-wise data on births, vehicle registrations, school enrolment and property transactions, alleging it has a "patently diabolical agenda"; the allegation has not been proven.
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