India, Oct. 10 -- Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Friday sharpened his attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, questioning the disappearance of 500,000 people who had voted in the civic poll in January 2026, but whose names did not appear in the draft roll published by the poll body after the SIR exercise or in the list of absent, shifted, dead and duplicate (ASDD) voters.

"Where did these ghost voters disappear," Thackeray said while addressing a press conference, amid ongoing protests across the country seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and the scrapping of the SIR exercise.

Thackeray referred to Kumar as a "traitor"...