‘Fraud on Democracy’: Akhilesh Yadav Accuses BJP of Using SIR to Delete Voters

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, branding the exercise a “big conspiracy” orchestrated by the Bharatiya Janata Party to systematically disenfranchise millions of citizens across the country. In a strongly worded statement accompanied by a video message on Thursday evening, the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister warned that the move could plunge the nation into a situation “far worse than the colonial era.”

Yadav alleged that the SIR process is not a routine updating of voter lists but a deliberate fraud on democracy designed to delete names of genuine voters. He claimed the deletions would begin with electoral rolls and eventually extend to land records, ration cards, caste certificates, reservation benefits, and even middle-class bank accounts and lockers, effectively stripping citizens of their identity and rights.

Urging immediate nationwide resistance, the SP chief appealed to all opposition parties, including disgruntled allies within the ruling National Democratic Alliance, to unite and expose what he termed the “mega-conspiracy of the BJP.” He warned that parties currently supporting the ruling dispensation would themselves be the first casualties once the electoral machinery falls completely under BJP control.

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Accusing the BJP, its allies, certain state governments, and “some corrupt officials” within the Election Commission of attempting to capture the entire democratic system, Yadav called upon citizens to “drop everything” and halt the SIR process. He asserted that failure to resist now would allow the ruling establishment to eventually brand ordinary people as “outsiders” in their own country.

The Special Intensive Revision is currently underway in nine states and three Union territories, with booth-level officers distributing semi-filled enumeration forms to electors for verification and completion. The Election Commission has maintained that the exercise is a standard measure to ensure accuracy and inclusiveness of voter lists ahead of future elections.

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