Association for Democratic Reforms & Ors v Election Commission of India

Opposition seeks CEC's removal, court-monitored probe, halt to SIR

In coordinated press conferences, opposition parties made three demands: remove the CEC, a Supreme Court-monitored inquiry, and a pause of the SIR. K C Venugopal, P Chidambaram, Akhilesh Yadav, Abhishek Banerjee, M K Stalin, Mamata Banerjee, Tejashwi Yadav and Kapil Sibal spoke; Sibal said decisions taken without the majority should be void.

No direct response to this statement was found. The Commission's standing reply to the investigation is its 23 Sep 2026 press note (sir-rules-eci-pn-119-response).

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