With each passing day, the Election Commission has more to explain about the conduct of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. On Monday, the Supreme Court questioned one of the Commission’s most consequential claims on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR): that the modified Form 6 declaration had the court’s approval.
The clarification from Chief Justice Surya Kant matters because the Commission did not merely refer to the Supreme Court judgment as background. In its September 26 statement, the ECI had suggested that the new declaration attached to Form 6 was consistent with, and approved by, the Supreme Court’s May 2026 judgment on Bihar SIR. The court has now made it clear that it did not approve any modified Form 6.
