Gyanesh, its done bro! Petition for the resignation of CEC
The Issue
Gyanesh, It’s Done Bro!
Now Resign.
India’s Election Commission is not a personal office. It is not a one-man show. It is the institution that decides who gets to exercise the most basic power in a democracy: your vote. And today, that institution has been dismantled.
1. Two Election Commissioners. 14 objections. 10 months.
Between November 2025 and September 2026, Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi formally recorded at least 14 objections concerning decisions and processes inside the Election Commission. They were objections recorded inside the institution itself. The concerns reportedly included voter registration, deletion and restoration of names, changes to Form 6, access to electoral-roll databases and the functioning of the Commission's IT systems. When two of three Election Commissioners repeatedly raise concerns about how India's voter rolls are being managed, the answer cannot be: “Nothing to see here.”
2. Form 6 was changed. Two Commissioners called it “illegal” and “unauthorised”.
Form 6 is the form through which new voters register themselves. Yet this year, a new declaration was added asking first-time voters about whether their name, or that of their parents or grandparents, appeared in an earlier electoral roll.
Election Commissioners Vivek Joshi and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu objected to the change, arguing that the statutory Form 6 could not simply be altered without following the legal process for amending the relevant rules. Sandhu subsequently described the change as “unauthorised/illegal” and called for its immediate removal so that eligible young voters could register without harassment.
For the youth of this nation, this is not some abstract bureaucratic fight. Your first vote should not come with an extra obstacle course.
3. Who controls the voter database?
The other major concern was the reported centralisation of electoral-roll database access. The two Election Commissioners raised concerns about whether statutory officers on the ground had proper and complete access to the systems they are legally required to use. They also proposed independent technical oversight of the electoral database and its access controls.
The dispute became serious enough for the two Commissioners to separately approach the Cabinet Secretary over concerns surrounding the electoral IT infrastructure.
Think about that. The people sitting inside the Election Commission were raising questions about who could access and control the machinery managing India's voter rolls.
4. And then there is SIR.
The Special Intensive Revision has already resulted in more than 13 crore names being excluded from draft electoral rolls across 31 States and Union Territories. These are draft exclusions, not a final count of people permanently disenfranchised, but the scale alone makes transparency absolutely essential. And when that enormous exercise is happening alongside internal objections over voter registration, deletion, restoration and database access, the obvious question is: Who is accountable?
The Chief Election Commissioner is not a constitutional monarch. Under Section 18 of the 2023 law governing the Commission, ECI business is to be conducted unanimously as far as possible; where the Commissioners differ, the majority opinion prevails. So when serious disagreements emerge within a three-member constitutional body, the public has a right to know: What was decided? Who decided it? On what legal basis? And where is the record?
5. If public trust is gone, accountability has to begin.
The Election Commission can conduct elections only if citizens trust that their vote will be protected. That trust cannot survive on press releases alone. It requires transparency. It requires institutional accountability. And it requires the people at the top to answer for what happens under their watch.
That is why we are calling for Gyanesh Kumar to step aside and face the full constitutional and parliamentary process concerning his conduct as Chief Election Commissioner. Not because one political party says so. Because India's voters deserve an Election Commission whose credibility is beyond reasonable doubt.
Gyanesh, it's done bro.
Now resign.
And let the constitutional process take its course.
Because this isn't about BJP.
It isn't about Congress.
It's about your vote. One person. One vote. One value.
And nobody gets to make your vote disappear.
Jai Hind
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The Issue
Gyanesh, It’s Done Bro!
Now Resign.
India’s Election Commission is not a personal office. It is not a one-man show. It is the institution that decides who gets to exercise the most basic power in a democracy: your vote. And today, that institution has been dismantled.
1. Two Election Commissioners. 14 objections. 10 months.
Between November 2025 and September 2026, Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi formally recorded at least 14 objections concerning decisions and processes inside the Election Commission. They were objections recorded inside the institution itself. The concerns reportedly included voter registration, deletion and restoration of names, changes to Form 6, access to electoral-roll databases and the functioning of the Commission's IT systems. When two of three Election Commissioners repeatedly raise concerns about how India's voter rolls are being managed, the answer cannot be: “Nothing to see here.”
2. Form 6 was changed. Two Commissioners called it “illegal” and “unauthorised”.
Form 6 is the form through which new voters register themselves. Yet this year, a new declaration was added asking first-time voters about whether their name, or that of their parents or grandparents, appeared in an earlier electoral roll.
Election Commissioners Vivek Joshi and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu objected to the change, arguing that the statutory Form 6 could not simply be altered without following the legal process for amending the relevant rules. Sandhu subsequently described the change as “unauthorised/illegal” and called for its immediate removal so that eligible young voters could register without harassment.
For the youth of this nation, this is not some abstract bureaucratic fight. Your first vote should not come with an extra obstacle course.
3. Who controls the voter database?
The other major concern was the reported centralisation of electoral-roll database access. The two Election Commissioners raised concerns about whether statutory officers on the ground had proper and complete access to the systems they are legally required to use. They also proposed independent technical oversight of the electoral database and its access controls.
The dispute became serious enough for the two Commissioners to separately approach the Cabinet Secretary over concerns surrounding the electoral IT infrastructure.
Think about that. The people sitting inside the Election Commission were raising questions about who could access and control the machinery managing India's voter rolls.
4. And then there is SIR.
The Special Intensive Revision has already resulted in more than 13 crore names being excluded from draft electoral rolls across 31 States and Union Territories. These are draft exclusions, not a final count of people permanently disenfranchised, but the scale alone makes transparency absolutely essential. And when that enormous exercise is happening alongside internal objections over voter registration, deletion, restoration and database access, the obvious question is: Who is accountable?
The Chief Election Commissioner is not a constitutional monarch. Under Section 18 of the 2023 law governing the Commission, ECI business is to be conducted unanimously as far as possible; where the Commissioners differ, the majority opinion prevails. So when serious disagreements emerge within a three-member constitutional body, the public has a right to know: What was decided? Who decided it? On what legal basis? And where is the record?
5. If public trust is gone, accountability has to begin.
The Election Commission can conduct elections only if citizens trust that their vote will be protected. That trust cannot survive on press releases alone. It requires transparency. It requires institutional accountability. And it requires the people at the top to answer for what happens under their watch.
That is why we are calling for Gyanesh Kumar to step aside and face the full constitutional and parliamentary process concerning his conduct as Chief Election Commissioner. Not because one political party says so. Because India's voters deserve an Election Commission whose credibility is beyond reasonable doubt.
Gyanesh, it's done bro.
Now resign.
And let the constitutional process take its course.
Because this isn't about BJP.
It isn't about Congress.
It's about your vote. One person. One vote. One value.
And nobody gets to make your vote disappear.
Jai Hind
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Petition created on 30 September 2026