Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav at a press conference at the party office in Lucknow. File | Photo credit: ANI
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday (December 5, 2025) demanded that the Uttar Pradesh government make public the process of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and ensure that booth-level officers (BLOs) are not subjected to “life-threatening pressure”.
He also urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the administration to deploy “additional authorized personnel” so that BLOs are not “overburdened”.
In a post on X in Hindi, Mr. Yadav demanded immediate disclosure of the percentage of SIR work completed in the state.
Direct SIR Request:
– Data on what percentage of SIR occurred in Uttar Pradesh should be released today.
– By removing the death pressure on BLO, more authorized people should be deployed for this job as per time limit.
– It should be ensured that the parties in power and their cronies are now involved in this work through the back door…
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) December 5, 2025
Stating that the transparency of electoral roll revision is “non-negotiable”, the former chief minister said it must be ensured that “those in power and their associates are not involved in this exercise from the back door, now or ever”.
Mr. Yadav further alleged that attempts were made to delete the names of people belonging to PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpasankhyak) communities in various constituencies.
The central legislator from Kannauj also demanded a thorough investigation into such complaints and said the government must prevent such a move “at all costs”.
Also read | SIR 2.0: How to check if your enumeration form is uploaded to the ECI portal?
Uttar Pradesh has witnessed several suicides and deaths of BLOs and other officials involved in SIR in the state, allegedly linked to overwork, stress and harassment.
On November 30, the EC extended the entire schedule of the ongoing SIR exercise in nine states and three Union Territories (UTs) by a week amid allegations by opposition parties that the “tight timelines” were causing problems for people and land survey officials.
ECI announced SIR in nine states and three UTs on October 27. Nearly 51 million voters will be included in the massive electoral roll purge.
These states and UTs include Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
Uttar Pradesh is scheduled for panchayat polls in 2026 and state assembly elections in 2027.
Published – 05 Dec 2025 12:26 IST
