"Do they form their vote bank through infiltration?": Chhattisgarh DyCM questions opposition over SIR

Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], September 16 (ANI): Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma on Tuesday questioned the opposition about the reason for opposing Special Intensive Revision in Bihar, asking whether they are creating their "vote bank" through infiltration.
Sharma asked how the names of the people who are being removed from the voter list in Bihar were included. He said that the opposition is opposing the SIR when the Election Commission is separating their "vote bank" through the exercise.
"I want to ask them (opposition) clearly that the people whose names are being removed from the voter list in Bihar, how were they included? They will have to tell this. Do they form their vote bank through infiltration? And when the work of separating that very vote bank is done through revision of the voter list through SIR, then they oppose it," Vijay Sharma told ANI.
He further accused the opposition of creating a "vote bank" in a "fraudulent manner" due to which they are opposing the Special Intensive Revision.
"This opposition has a simple meaning that you have created such a vote bank in the voter list in a fraudulent manner and you are opposing its removal... This is their vote bank, to save which they are opposing SIR," Sharma added.
Meanwhile, on September 15, the Supreme Court declined to modify its September 8 order directing the Election Commission of India (ECI), which permitted the use of Aadhaar card as a 12th document for the proof of identity for the inclusion of a voter to the revised voters' list being prepared as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymlaya Bagchi said the direction passed by it last week was only interim in nature, and the issue of the document's validity as proof is still open to be decided in the matter related to the SIR.
Other documents like ration cards and driving licenses are also as susceptible to being forged as the Aadhaar card, and Aadhaar cannot be singled out and excluded on that ground, the apex court said.
The Election Commission of India is conducting a Special Intensive Revision in Bihar ahead of the assembly elections in the months of October and November.
The opposition has been constantly questioning the excersise, alleging it a conspiracy by the BJP and ECI for rigging elections and doing "vote theft". (ANI)