Guwahati, Oct. 23 -- An RTI reply has revealed that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi wrote separately to Cabinet Secretary T.V. Somanathan on July 29, 2026, alleging that a senior Election Commission of India (ECI) official had changed work allocations without informing the commission, despite explicit instructions against such action.

The letters, obtained by transparency activist Commodore Lokesh Batra (Retd.), raise questions about internal oversight and decision-making at the poll body amid the controversy surrounding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. As reported by The Wire, the correspondence also sheds light on the concerns raised by the two commissioners over changes that could af...