BJP youth lawyer and activist Adv. Raj Saraf told Mukhyamantri.com that a drive launched in the name of voter-list transparency has now become a political conspiracy to distrust the Election Commission and damage the image of Indian democracy. He said the campaign run by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and opposition parties is political propaganda that misleads the public. He laid out the facts in detail.
1. The 'missing 13 crore voters' claim is false Saraf said the claim that 13 crore voters had vanished from the rolls is completely misleading. During the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), only names removed from the draft roll after verification were dropped. These included about 2.8 crore deceased persons, 6.3 crore people who had migrated and 3 crore untraceable people. He said updating voter lists and removing duplicate and bogus names is the Election Commission's constitutional duty. After the draft roll, he added, every person has a legal right to file claims and objections and get their name restored, a point the protesters are conveniently hiding.
2. Supreme Court's nod to SIR Citing the Supreme Court's May 27, 2026 verdict on the Special Intensive Revision in Bihar, Saraf said: "Under Article 324 and Section 21(3) of the Representation of the People Act, the Election Commission has full legal authority to carry out such a revision, and the court has endorsed this. It has protected transparency in the process and the legal remedies available. So declaring the entire process illegal amounts to disobeying the court's ruling."
3. The opposition's convenient double standards "If the Election Commission is managed, how are opposition parties winning elections?" Saraf asked. He said the BJP's tally rose to 240 in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, while Congress reached 99. The INDIA bloc won in Jharkhand, the Congress-led UDF came to power in Kerala, and the TVK won 108 seats in Tamil Nadu. Of the 29 by-elections held between June 2025 and October 2026, the opposition won 18 seats. He said that when the opposition wins it is a victory for democracy, and when it loses it cries 'vote chori'.
4. The appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner is legal He objected to the 48-hour ultimatum given to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, calling it unconstitutional. Saraf said Kumar was appointed under the 2023 law passed by Parliament, on the recommendation of the selection committee and with the President's approval. Constitutional bodies, he said, cannot function on ultimatums issued on social media alone.
5. The legal reality of arrests and the use of fake videos Saraf said the narrative that CJP leaders went to jail merely for hoisting the tricolour is false. He said each of them had furnished a bond of Rs 50,000 to maintain peace and order. By forcibly entering the restricted Jantar Mantar area in breach of that bond, they invited preventive action by the magistrate. He added that old videos of a festival in the Philippines and of the 2021 farmers' protest were circulated as footage of the current agitation to mislead the public.
6. Foreign funding and hidden political support Referring to points raised by American singer Mary Millben, Saraf said CJP should make public the sources of its funding, its travel expenses and its audited accounts. He said the Aam Aadmi Party, the Left parties, the Trinamool Congress and Rahul Gandhi openly back the agitation. Opposition parties that could not beat Modi's leadership and development record at the polls, he said, are now using 'toolkits' and street protests to express distrust in the entire election process.
"India's GDP is growing at around 6.4 per cent and the country is getting stronger on the global stage, yet anti-national activities are being encouraged. No one can steal a voter's right, but no one can snatch the public's verdict through false propaganda either. A demand to boycott elections or postpone them is an attempt to pressure democracy from the streets, and it will never be tolerated," Adv. Raj Saraf warned at the end.