23 Sep 2026
Inside the Commission
Indian Express: ECs wrote to Cabinet Secretary over IT oversight changeReportedChecked
Neta·ResumeDeputation appointment; no appointment order or date was found in public records. The Tribune and National Herald report she joined in 2025.
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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