If any process results in disenfranchising millions of India citizens, it strikes at very heart of Constitution: Justice Ujjal Bhuyan
Babushahi Network
New Delhi, October 5, 2026: Supreme Court Judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan has said that If any process results in disenfranchising millions and millions of Indian citizens... such a process is intrinsically arbitrary... It strikes at the very heart of the Constitution. He was speaking at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.
He further said that such an exercise violative of the Constitution's Article 14, which guarantees the right to equality, and Article 326, which provides for universal adult suffrage. He said that I would go to the extent of saying that it is a negation of the constitutional order which we have adopted under the Constitution of India.
Though he did not specifically mentioned any exercise, but his comments have come at a time when opposition parties in the country are opposing SIR exercise being carried out by Election Commission of India (ECI).