Chief Election Commissioner Called Biggest Anti-National by CJP Founder Over SIR Row
· India · Times of India, Bloomberg, The Hindu
The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke called Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar the biggest anti-national of the country and demanded his immediate resignation. Speaking at a press conference in New Delhi on September 24, 2026, Dipke accused the CEC of undermining democracy by allowing the government to decide who can vote during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. He claimed that since Kumar became CEC, the government has been determining voter eligibility, which he said inverted the meaning of democracy. Dipke also questioned the Election Commission's role in deciding voter eligibility, asking what democracy meant if people were not free to elect the government. The controversy follows a report by The Indian Express that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi raised objections 14 times over 10 months regarding electoral-roll procedures and SIR decisions. The Election Commission has maintained that internal differences
Why it matters
The statement by the CJP founder escalates political tension around the functioning of the Election Commission and the SIR process, raising concerns about the perceived independence of India's electoral body. It directly challenges public trust in the fairness of voter roll revisions, which are critical to ensuring free and fair elections.
Read the original report — Times of India
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