India, Sept. 27 -- Escalating a major constitutional standoff, Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has demanded the immediate scrapping of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, citing deep institutional cracks within the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the potential disenfranchisement of over a crore voters. The political atmosphere in Karnataka intensified following reports that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi recorded dissent over several major decisions of the poll panel. Seizing on these internal fissures, Chief Minister Shivakumar called for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, asserting that the integrity of the country's apex electoral body st...