{"id":66174,"date":"2026-06-30T06:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/23-opposition-parties-independent-mp-kapil-sibal-write-to-cji-over-ecs-sir-process\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T06:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:13:41","slug":"23-opposition-parties-independent-mp-kapil-sibal-write-to-cji-over-ecs-sir-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/23-opposition-parties-independent-mp-kapil-sibal-write-to-cji-over-ecs-sir-process\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Opposition Parties, Independent MP Kapil Sibal Write to CJI Over EC&#8217;s SIR Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-three political parties along with Independent Rajya Sabha MP <strong>Kapil Sibal<\/strong> have jointly written to <strong>Surya Kant<\/strong>, raising concerns over the <strong>Election Commission&#8217;s Special Intensive Revision (SIR)<\/strong> process and other election-related issues.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing the development on X, <strong>Jairam Ramesh<\/strong>, General Secretary of the <strong>Indian National Congress<\/strong>, said the Opposition parties remain united under the slogan <strong>&#8220;SURE&#8221; \u2014 Solidarity, Unity and REsistance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ramesh, leaders of <strong>21 political parties<\/strong> and one Independent MP had attended the INDIA alliance meeting on <strong>June 8, 2026<\/strong>, where it was decided to jointly approach the Chief Justice of India regarding the Election Commission&#8217;s SIR exercise and broader electoral concerns.<\/p>\n<p>He said the decision has now been implemented, with a joint letter signed by <strong>23 political parties<\/strong> and Independent MP Kapil Sibal being sent to the Chief Justice.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Derek O&#8217;Brien<\/strong> confirmed that the letter has also been signed by the <strong>Aam Aadmi Party<\/strong> and the <strong>Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam&gt; (DMK)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the communication also raises concerns regarding the role of the <strong>Election Commission of India<\/strong>. The Congress and several Opposition parties have recently questioned the Commission over the implementation of the <strong>Special Intensive Revision (SIR)<\/strong> process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-three political parties along with Independent Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal have jointly written to Surya Kant, raising concerns over the Election Commission&#8217;s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process and other election-related issues. Sharing the development on X, Jairam Ramesh, General Secretary of the Indian National Congress, said the Opposition parties remain united under the slogan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4603],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}