Scrap SIR, disband EC: How economist Parakala Prabhakar has turned up the heat on poll body

India Today · India Today News Desk · 2026-10-22 02:30 UTC

Economist Parakala Prabhakar a vocal critic of the Election Commission039s Special Intensive Revision SIR will join Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and actor Prakash Raj at an anti-SIR protest in Delhi on October 23 He has called the exercise a deeper project to reshape India039s political society and urged the poll body039s disbandment

Economist Parakala Prabhakar, a vocal critic of the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR), will join Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and actor Prakash Raj at an anti-SIR protest in Delhi on October 23. He has called the exercise a deeper project to reshape India's political society and urged the poll body's disbandment.

Economist Parakala Prabhakar is all set to share the stage with Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and actor Prakash Raj on October 23 at an anti-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) protest in Delhi, barely weeks after joining the two at Bengaluru's Freedom Park.

A look at Prabhakar's timeline on X reveals that he has been an outright critic of the SIR, going so far as to call for the exercise to be scrapped in its entirety.

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