'I warned you before too': Kejriwal takes swipe at Yogi over SIR, congratulates Akhilesh in advance

NewsIndia News'I warned you before too': Kejriwal takes swipe at Yogi over SIR, congratulates Akhilesh in advance 'I warned you before too': Kejriwal takes swipe at Yogi over SIR, congratulates Akhilesh in advance Edited by Rohitashwa Ranjan / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: Nov 09, 2026, 20:45 IST NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday took a swipe at Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath over his remarks on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

He also extended advance congratulations to Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav.In a post on X, Kejriwal reacted to a video of Adityanath's interview and alleged that the Election Commission was acting at the behest of two people."Maharaj ji, you also know that the Election Commission does whatever those two tell it to.

I warned you before too. These two are out to finish you off. Congratulations in advance to Akhilesh ji," Kejriwal wrote.This comes after the UP chief minister claimed that a large number of Hindu voters whose names figured in the state panchayat election rolls were missing from the Election Commission's electoral rolls following the SIR exercise in Uttar Pradesh.Adityanath said the Muslim voter population had increased by 1.65 per cent after the revision, while raising concerns over the deletion of Hindu voters' names."That is why we also submitted our memorandum to the Election Commission.

We submitted it asking what reasons led to this," Adityanath said."There are 66 lakh such voters... 55 lakh voters are those Hindu voters who are direct beneficiaries of government welfare schemes, yet their names are missing from the voter list.

There are around 4.5 lakh voters aged 18 and 19 whose names are completely missing from the voter list," he said.Earlier in the day, Akhilesh Yadav demanded that Aadhaar cards be linked to voting and biometric identification be introduced to prevent electoral malpractice.Join conversation InsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig Development In a post on X, Yadav called for Aadhaar-linked voting, metal voter identity cards and fingerprint or iris-based biometric verification, alleging that these measures would prevent the BJP from manipulating votes."Simple, straightforward demands regarding the election: Aadhaar cards should be linked to voting.

Instead of paper or plastic, ‘metal cards’ should be made so they cannot be forged. Fingerprint or iris-based biometric identification should be adopted because no two people have the same biometrics, so the BJP will not be able to rig the vote," he wrote.Poll What is your opinion on Yogi Adityanath's claims about missing Hindu voters?

Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app. Rohitashwa Ranjan is a digital journalist with The Times of India, where he decodes Indian politics as a carefully staged production with scripts, subtext and everything behind.

His stories track elections, party dynamics and the things that often are buried beneath the headlines. When not parsing vote shares or alliances, he is usually reading between the lines, where the real story tends to reside.

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