18 Mar 2024
Neta·ResumeNo SIR figures for Uttarakhand are in the record yet. It is in Phase III of the SIR.
Included in Deccan Herald's Phase III draft tally of 17 States/UTs (1 Sep 2026), but no figure for Uttarakhand on its own is in the record (numbers-phase3-draft-tally-2026-09-01).
Replying to the debate, Home Minister Amit Shah said the SIR falls within the Commission's constitutional powers and cannot be answered by the government in Parliament, cited earlier intensive revisions under Congress governments, and said the exercise removes the dead, the shifted, duplicates and foreigners. When Rahul Gandhi asked him to debate his three press conferences, Shah said Parliament would not run to his wishes.
On the SIR's legal basis, raised in the debate: the Supreme Court's later judgment of 27 May 2026 on the Bihar SIR traced the Commission's power to Section 21(3) of the RP Act, 1950.
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