New Delhi, May 27 -- An uproar followed the Supreme Court's approval of the Election Commission of India's (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, with advocate Prashant Bhushan terming it a "dark day for the judiciary" and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accusing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of opposing the cleaning up of electoral rolls and siding with "illegal infiltrators."

The Supreme Court on Wednesday, May 27, upheld the power of the ECI to conduct the SIR, saying the exercise "advances the constitutional imperative of free and fair elections."

In a post on X, BJP national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari said, "Rahul Gandhi and Congress party stands exposed! The Supreme Court declares SIR process legal and constitutional!...