"It is completely in violation of the Representation of the People Act, electoral rules passed by the House and the Supreme Court judgement. The SIR has turned this on its head and put the onus on the voter," Owaisi said.

"Voters who were part of the electoral roll in 2025, instead of being given the benefit of the presumption, are required to submit documents to prove their citizenship. The 2003 electoral roll is arbitrarily fixed as the baseline on which revision is being conducted," he said.

The ECI is not a body empowered to go into the question of citizenship as the power for that lies with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Owaisi said.

"What ECI is doing is wrong. How is the ECI assuming the power given to other agencies of parliament? They are violating the sanctity of a law passed by this House," he alleged.

When 3.66 lakh voters were deleted through SIR, this government came with a new Immigration and Foreigners Act and it was notified, he said.

"When the Supreme Court is seized of the petition of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the government issues a foreigners' exemption order. Why? Because they realise that in this 3.66 lakh, there can be non-Muslims also, to protect them. That is why I say this whole exercise is a backdoor NRC (National Register of Citizens)," Owaisi said.

"I oppose the SIR; this is nothing but backdoor NRC," he added.