Delhi CM, EC Sandhu, Advani, Jaishankar get SIR notices for 'discrepancies' in voter details

New Delhi: Former deputy PM LK Advani, external affairs minister S Jaishankar, former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar and Election Commissioner SS Sandhu are among the many prominent figures in the list of voters who have been issued notices for "discrepancies" in their details furnished under the SIR exercise, officials said on Sunday. Delhi CM Rekha Gupta and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal have also been issued notices, officials said.

After publication of draft rolls of over 97 lakh voters under the SIR, 33.13 lakh notices were being issued over "discrepancies" in details furnished by people in their enumeration forms. Most notices were issued for voter details not matching with the information in the last SIR in 2002. The Delhi Chief Electoral Officer's office, however, maintained that system-generated notices were being issued to voters with discrepancies to correct their data in ECINET and stressed that "there is no existential crisis as is being brought out in social and print". Election Commissioner SS Sandhu has been issued a notice over a mismatch in his name, while his son Damanbir has been served a notice over a mismatch in his parent's name.

Those who have already been issued notice or who are to be issued one soon include foreign secretary Vikram Misri, ex-Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, former JNU VC M Jagadesh Kumar, ex-LG Najeeb Jung, officials said.


The name of late economist and former chairman of Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Bibek Debroy also appeared in the list of voters being issued notices for "discrepancies". Debroy died in November 2024.