Questions over the functioning of the Election Commission of India have followed an The Indian Express investigation into differences among its three Election Commissioners over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The investigation reported that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi raised objections on 14 occasions over 10 months regarding decisions linked to voter registration, deletion of names and electoral-roll data. The objections were made on record and concerned decisions and orders that they said were taken without their knowledge. The report brought the issue into political debate. Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that if elections were unfair or rigged, the Election Commission would be assisting in that and called it an “act of treason”. AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal demanded that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar be arrested and a case of treason registered against him. CPI(M) MP John Brittas called for Kumar’s removal. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said the objections raised by officials within the Election Commission raised questions about whose behalf the institution was operating. Sourav Das of CJP said, “The election commission is compromised.” The BJP’s Sambit Patra disputed the claims. He said all three Election Commissioners were unanimous, with no difference of opinion or dissent among them, and described the process as democracy. The Election Commission has said that decisions were taken unanimously and that differences in views are part of its deliberations.