18 Mar 2024
No 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).
Congress workers protested in Lucknow, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Jammu and Guwahati, where state chief Gaurav Gogoi was detained. Priyanka Gandhi called the BJP's attack a stale story, and BJD president Naveen Patnaik sought the CEC's resignation and a review of the SIR.
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).