New Delhi: Hundreds of voters and senior opposition leaders attended a Jan Sunvai (public hearing) on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Trilokpuri, East Delhi on Tuesday (October 27). It was organised by Jan Sarokar, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), the National Federation of Independent Women (NFIW) and Voter Adhikar Manch.Several residents said they were struck off the voter list despite having submitted their forms, and a door-to-door audit of four booths found that one in three removals it checked in Trilokpuri was wrong, as per a press release issued by the organisers.What the numbers showTrilokpuri assembly constituency had 1,93,917 voters on the electoral roll of January 2025. According to the organisers’ audit, only 42% of them, 81,687 voters, made it to the draft roll without any notice. Another 40,277 are on the draft roll but have been sent a notice. Roughly 37%, or 70,884 voters, have either been placed in the Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate, and Others (ASDDO) list (61,998) or were removed before SIR began (8,886).Of the 61,998 ASDDO cases, 48% are listed as “absent” or untraceable, 44% as shifted, and about 6% are recorded as deaths. Among the notices, 40% cite no link to the 2002 roll and 39% a name mismatch. The organisers say the latter can be fixed at a hearing.The audit also points to a sharp rise in deletions before SIR even started. Monthly lists from January to May 2026 removed 5,816 voters, against 1,385 in all of 2025, which works out to about 1,160 a month against 120. The organisers found that 53% of voters above 80 are marked or removed, compared with 28% of those aged 18 to 29, and that the share varies from 12 to 74% depending on the booth. They also noted that 1,047 voters who were on the 2025 roll appear on no SIR list at all, not on the draft, not on ASDD, no notice.The public auditOver four days, from October 23 to 26, 31 volunteers made 2,082 visits to 700 households in booths 42, 43, 79 and 80 (2025 numbering), covering Indira Camp and Block 34. About 40.5% of the 5,173 voters on the roll in these booths are marked for removal on the ASDDO list or already deleted.Volunteers verified 1,236 of the removed voters. Of these, 416, or 33.7%, had been wrongly removed. Among those marked “absent”, 55% (384 of 701) were found living at the address, while only 20 of 345 (6%) “shifted” labels were wrong. Three of the 102 voters marked dead were found alive.The audit found that 118 of the wrongly removed had filled their forms, 184 never received one, and in 65 cases the Booth Level Officer (BLO) left the form uncollected. Only 87 of the 416 have so far filed Form 6 to get back on the roll. The error rate was 53% in Indira Camp against 14% in Block 34. Of 763 notice voters visited, 66 said no notice had reached them.Also read: Nearly One-Third of Form 7 Objections in Delhi SIR Seeking Voter Deletions Not Disclosed Publicly: ReportThe organisers acknowledge that this was a targeted audit and not a random sample, and that 780 removed voters are yet to be reached, so the figure of 416 is a minimum. They also note that 81 visits did not yield a clear finding.The casesMany participants, who were deleted voters, narrated their cases, as per the press release.For instance, Vijender, 67, who has lived in the area for 50 years, was marked dead despite submitting his enumeration form.In one house of 14 people, nine were deleted though everyone had submitted forms.Genda Devi, a 56-year-old widow, was marked absent and untraceable after filling the enumeration form.Similarly, Susheela, 28, who is expecting, was deleted while her husband remains on the list.Mithlesh, 48, said she received forms for her husband and daughter but none for herself, and is now marked absent.Another voter Javed said four of five members of his family were deleted, and that the BLO remained unresponsive despite repeated visits.Parul, 20, was marked absent though her parents and the rest of her family are on the draft list.‘We will not stop till he resigns’Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, attended the public hearing and spoke to wrongly deleted voters. “Through SIR, right to vote of ordinary citizens in being snatched and the entire opposition stands united against this,” he said.He added, “This is being done to create a new India where only select billionaires have a right to vote and poor people are disenfranchised en masse. This public audit has shown that [there are] 416 wrongly deleted voters in just four booths, but people all over the country are now able to see through this farce. Whenever we ask for accountability from the ECI, the current CEC Gyanesh Kumar goes in hiding. But we will not stop till he resigns. Everybody who is standing against SIR today is fighting to save India’s democracy.”Congress MP Sasikant Senthil, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Yadav, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPI (M-L) Liberation) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary D. Raja, CPI national secretary Annie Raja, joint secretary of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) Danish Ali, political activist Yogendra Yadav and senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan were also present.Also read: Across Class and Circumstance: 10 Stories of Delhi Voters Grappling with SIRSanjay Yadav said people in Bihar too had been wrongly deleted and were unable to take part in elections. D. Raja demanded Kumar’s resignation while Annie Raja called SIR fraudulent, saying people were asking for their right to vote and “not a favour from ECI.”Bhattacharya criticised the 2023 law governing appointments to the Election Commission and demanded its withdrawal. He said a similar public audit in Bihar had revealed errors of 18 to 20%, including wrongful deletions and additions, and argued that booth-level public audits should be mandatory before any election.During the hearing, Yogendra Yadav said SIR had altered the logic of enrolment by “deleting first and asking later.”Bhushan objected to wrongly deleted voters being made to sign what he called false declarations that they are first-time voters when filling Form 6.Danish Ali said peaceful protest is a fundamental right and that protests would continue until the demands are met.Form 6A facilitation camp at the venue was also organised at the venue which helped 280 families file Form 6 with supporting documents and a self-declaration underlining that they were wrongly deleted and are not first-time voters. More than 500 forms were filled, as per the press release.The organisers said BLOs, the electoral registration officer (ERO), the district magistrate and ECI officials had been invited. ERO Mohan Kumar and ADM East attended the hearing and assisted voters.DemandsThe hearing ended with these demands:Complete withdrawal of SIR and reverting to pre-SIR voter rolls. No election should be conducted on voter rolls created through SIR process.Any further voter roll revision must be subject to a public collective verification process – such as public hearings – in both urban and rural areas.Kumar must resign or be impeached with accountability fixed.All data, documents and orders related to SIR must be made publicly available.The code and algorithm for ECINET, the ECI’s official portal, should be subjected to a public audit process.“The voter list belongs to the people, and every citizen has the right to be on it, to question their exclusion and to be heard,” the organisers said.For our full coverage on the SIR and the issues it has brought to citizens, click here.