19/10/2026
Scrap SIR!
Bhagat Singh Jan Adhikar Yatra Rally Against SIR in Musheerabad, Hyderabad.
On October 18, a rally and public meetings were organized by the 'Disha' Students Organization in Musheerabad, Hyderabad, as part of the Bhagat Singh Jan Adhikar Yatra against SIR. Volunteers participating in the yatra raised slogans stating that vote theft in elections would not be tolerated, demanding the immediate repeal of SIR, and calling for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Addressing the gathering, members who took part in the rally alleged that under the pretext of revising the voter list, the SIR process was introduced to remove nearly 13 crore voters from the voter list nationwide. They explained that over 1,40,000 votes were deleted in Musheerabad through SIR, and more than 92,000 notices were issued. They pointed out that authorities are asking for documents from the times of ancestors that a majority of people do not possess and asserted that under the excuse of infiltrators being present in the country, the fundamental democratic right to vote of Muslims, Adivasis, Dalits, women, and migrant workers is being attacked. They criticized the Election Commission for failing to disclose any information about who the actual infiltrators are among the 13 crore votes deleted so far, alleging that SIR is being used as a backdoor method to implement the NRC. Hearing the speeches and reading the pamphlets during the yatra, several residents of Musheerabad shared instances with BSJAY volunteers about how their own votes had been deleted.
