Rahul Gandhi dissented: Asked that the decision wait for the Supreme Court hearing two days later, objected to the Chief Justice's removal from the panel in a dissent note, and did not take part in further proceedings. He published the note the next day.
Scroll reported that by May 2026, when Joshi warned of centralisation, the West Bengal SIR had already been run with centrally generated notices and observer approvals, and that over 91 lakh names were deleted though about a third of those people attended hearings.
Education: PhD and Master's in International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva; Executive Master's in International Business, IIFT New Delhi; B.E. Mechanical, University of Roorkee (1987) - per ECI profile
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