24 Sep 2026
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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
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In the Lok Sabha debate on electoral reforms, Rahul Gandhi alleged 1.2 lakh duplicate photos in the Bihar SIR roll, sought machine-readable rolls for parties a month before polls and withdrawal of the rule allowing CCTV footage to be destroyed. Congress's Manish Tewari questioned the SIR's legal basis. Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said SIRs were held several times under Congress governments.
The Lok Sabha debate transcript on sansad.in was not opened.
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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