24 Sep 2026
Neta·Resume
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury dissented: Recorded dissent on procedure: 212 names sent the night before and a six-name shortlist eight to ten minutes before the meeting. He said he had nothing against the two appointees.
Education: MBBS (Government Medical College, Amritsar); Master's in History (Guru Nanak Dev University) - per ECI profile and The Tribune; The Tribune also reports a law degree
The source lists these without dates. They appear in the source's order.
Responding to the Form 6 reports, the Commission said the requirement of a Declaration Form (Annexure D) with Form 6 or Form 8 had been part of the Bihar order of 24 June 2025, the 12-state order of 27 October 2025 and the 19-state order of 14 May 2026, all decided unanimously by the three Commissioners, and that the Supreme Court upheld it on 27 May 2026. It said applicants filing the declaration need not submit any other documents.
Primary text of this statement was not found on eci.gov.in (last indexed press note: PN-119 of 23.09.2026). The response does not address the Commissioners' specific objection, which concerned inserting the question into the statutory online Form 6 rather than the separate SIR Declaration Form. The published 2025 and 2026 orders do state that no documents are collected at enumeration, while the declaration's own information sheet says documents are required on receipt of an ERO notice.