Refrain from making misleading comments on SIR, BJP tells Opposition

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday (November 29, 2025) urged the Samajwadi Party and other Opposition parties to refrain from making “misleading remarks” to spread confusion regarding the Election Commission’s special intensive revision (SIR) exercise. Talking to reporters, BJP spokesperson and MP Sambit Patra said SP leader Akhilesh Yadav’s claims that SIR will end reservations, take away jobs, and increase inflation were “baseless”.

Mr. Patra said Mr. Yadav should first obtain prior knowledge about the SIR process, how it was being conducted, and its purpose. “Linking issues like reservation and employment to the SIR without understanding what Special Revision and Summary Revision are is surprising. How will SIR take away jobs and how will reservations end — these questions themselves prove his claims to be false,” he said. He said leaders like Mr. Yadav, Rahul Gandhi, and Mamata Banerjee had accepted defeat even before contesting elections. “It was seen in Bihar that Tejashwi Yadav and Rahul Gandhi spoke about SIR the entire day, and the result was before everyone,” he added.

Citing the Supreme Court’s intervention, Mr. Patra said conducting SIR was within the jurisdiction of the EC and no irregularities were found in the process.

Madani slammed

Attacking Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind president Maulana Mahmood Madani’s reported comments on jihad, Mr. Patra said they were extremely inappropriate because, in the name of jihad, terror and violence were spread not only in India but across the world. “Maulana Mahmood Madani’s claim that courts work under pressure from the Government of India and that the Supreme Court has no right to call itself supreme are direct attacks on the judiciary. The questions he has raised over the Supreme Court… how it hears cases related to triple talaq, how it hears cases on temple–mosque issues, and how it accepts such matters, clearly indicate an attempt to undermine the dignity of the court,” Mr. Patra said.

Jamiat statement

The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind said in a statement that Mr. Madani, addressing its National Governing Meeting, expressed deep concern over the current situation in the country. “He stated that India is going through an extremely sensitive and worrying phase. Regrettably, systematic attempts are being made to empower a particular class while rendering other communities legally helpless, socially isolated, and economically humiliated,” the statement said.

Clarifying that jihad in Islam a noble duty aimed at eliminating injustice, protecting humanity, and establishing peace, he told the gathering that even armed struggle is sanctioned only to prevent oppression and disorder and it is not an individual or private undertaking, it said. “India, being a democratic and secular nation, is not an Islamic state; hence any debate about physical jihad here has no relevance. Muslims are constitutionally bound citizens, and the government is responsible for protecting the rights of all. He emphasised that the greatest form of jihad — jihad al-Akbar — is the struggle against one’s own ego, greed, anger, and moral weaknesses,” the statement added.