New Delhi: People Against SIR, a platform of organisations and activists campaigning against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, has announced nationwide protests from November 26 to December 20. The protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resume after a break following the festival season, and the coalition says it will take them from Delhi to districts and villages. The decision was taken at a meeting of its working group and announced on November 12.Constitution Day to December 20: the 25-day programmeThe campaign opens on November 26, Constitution Day, with demonstrations on the right to vote and the right to livelihood. The Delhi events begin with a reading of the Preamble, and a march to reclaim Jantar Mantar is planned for the same day, All India Kisan Sabha leader P. Krishna Prasad said. The coalition says it is planning common programmes with groups linked to farmers, workers, agricultural workers, Adivasis, Dalits, minorities, students, youth and women.Between November 26 and December 20 it will hold public meetings and rallies across states. On December 20, booth-level meetings will adopt resolutions urging President Droupadi Murmu to scrap the SIR and restore every citizen’s right to vote before any further elections are announced.December 10 will be a ‘Right to Protest’ day, and a bid to reclaim Jantar MantarThe coalition plans to observe Human Rights Day on December 10 as a Right to Protest day, when, it says, every street will be turned into Jantar Mantar. It will again demand that Jantar Mantar be re-notified as a designated protest site in Delhi.JNU Students’ Union joint secretary Danish said people protesting over alleged vote theft had faced police action, detention and notices. The platform said it would raise alleged police excesses and curbs on peaceful protest with elected representatives, the judiciary and political parties.Voter-list audits to document alleged deletionsThe campaign will audit voter lists in states, which the coalition says will feed a ground-level awareness campaign on wrongful deletions. Organisers said it would sensitise people to what they called an assault on the right to vote and the right to protest by the Narendra Modi–Amit Shah government. Activist Anjali Bhardwaj cited the deletion of Muslim voters through Form 7 in Delhi’s Mustafabad. She demanded that details of all Form 7 applications seeking deletion be made public across the country.Five demands, from scrapping the SIR to paper ballotsThe coalition’s demands, as reported by PTI, are:Scrap the SIR.Take action against Kumar and others it holds responsible.Restore every citizen’s right to vote.Hold elections by paper ballot.Carry out wider electoral reform, including proportional representation, curbs on money and muscle power, and legalising state funding of elections.“Stunning victory’, ‘belated’: activists on the EC’s relief for deleted votersThe announcement came days after the Election Commission (EC) said deleted voters in six states and Delhi could submit enumeration forms to get back into the rolls. The Deccan Herald report puts the number deleted from those states’ draft rolls at 4,51,76,997, led by Maharashtra with 2.06 crore. Business Standard reported that affected voters can use the EC’s website or the ECINET app with their earlier EPIC number. The EC acted after the Supreme Court asked on October 28 why deleted voters had to file Form 6, meant for new voters, rather than Form 8.Bhardwaj said the EC’s U-turns on Form 6 and other issues were a “stunning victory” for those who opposed the SIR. She said deleted voters would no longer need Form 6 but would submit enumeration forms with a statement that booth-level officers verify, and that it was the EC’s responsibility to get the forms to people. She also asked why crores of people who had already filed Form 6 should bear the consequences of the poll body’s process. The coalition called the EC’s measures belated and said they did not address its concerns.Actor and activist Prakash Raj said the EC had taken many U-turns after months of the campaign calling its steps wrong. He alleged that the SIR was a conspiracy with the BJP behind it, and asked the government to produce evidence for its claims of three crore infiltrators. Why the CEC is at the centre of the rowThe demand for action against Kumar predates this campaign. A petition in the Supreme Court seeks his suspension and alleges that decisions vested in the Commission as a body are being taken by him alone. In August 2025, opposition parties did not rule out an impeachment motion and accused him of acting like a “BJP spokesperson”.For our full coverage on the SIR and the issues it has brought to citizens, click here.