New Delhi: Two petitioners who have challenged the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the Supreme Court have urged the commission to allow all voters excluded from the draft rolls and placed on the Absent, Shifted, Dead and Duplicate (ASDD) categories to submit enumeration forms and have their old voter ID numbers restored.Petitioners Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri, in a letter dated November 10 addressed to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, refer to the ECI’s November 6 directive allowing voters excluded from draft electoral rolls in seven states to seek inclusion through enumeration forms instead of form 6.ECI’s revised procedure applies to those marked ASDD in seven states including Delhi. The petitioners say that the “vital remedies” offered by the ECI to voters in the November 6 order “must be extended universally to all voters in a similar legal standing”.Currently only voters in Delhi, Maharashtra, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Telangana and Nagaland are covered by the directive.Bhardwaj and Johri also point out that the new procedure creates an unequal situation for voters who had already submitted form 6 under the earlier instructions and were issued new EPIC numbers.Filling form 6 involves a declaration that the applicant is a first-time voter, which the Supreme Court had described as a “structural incongruity” during hearings on the Delhi SIR matter.“People who took remedial action as per ECI’s instructions prior to November 6, 2026, should not be misclassified by being processed as new voters and prejudiced by the erasure of their prior presence on the electoral rolls,” they write.Also read: For Every Form 6 Disposal, Six Form 7s Cleared in Delhi: ReportThe petitioners have sought permission for all ASDD-listed voters to submit enumeration forms, cancellation of Form 6 applications already submitted by such voters and restoration of their original EPIC numbers.The letter also called for greater transparency in the reinstatement process, urging the ECI to publish regular updates through a dashboard or daily bulletins indicating how many voters on the ASDD lists have submitted enumeration forms and how many have been approved.Citing the 13.30 crore pre-existing voters excluded from draft SIR rolls nationwide, the petitioners said the new safeguards would benefit only 4.52 crore voters across the seven states, leaving others facing similar exclusions without equivalent relief.They have urged the ECI to extend the same procedures nationwide, including to voters who had already submitted form 6 and received new EPIC numbers, so that their earlier electoral records are preserved.Bhardwaj and Johri were also part of a delegation of Opposition political parties and civil society organisations that met the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi on Monday (November 9) to discuss measures to safeguard every eligible voter’s right to vote during the SIR.For our full coverage on the SIR and the issues it has brought to citizens, click here.