"If SIR is not stopped, Bihar elections have no meaning": Sanjay Singh

New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh on Sunday reiterated his objections against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise being carried out by the Election Commission (EC) and said that the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar will have no meaning if this doesn't stop.
"If SIR is not stopped, then the Bihar elections have no meaning. I can tell you the result now that if SIR is not stopped, then the BJP will win the Bihar elections," Singh told ANI.
This comes as twenty-four members of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc have decided to raise various key issues during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, beginning on Monday, including the Pahalgam terror attack and the SIR of electoral rolls in Bihar.
However, Singh on Wednesday stated that his party is no longer part of the INDIA alliance following the conclusion of the Lok Sabha elections. AAP and Congress had contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Delhi as part of the INDIA alliance. However, both parties contested separately in the Haryana and Delhi Legislative Assembly elections.
Speaking to ANI, Singh stated, "We have clarified our position that the INDIA alliance was there till the Lok Sabha elections. As far as the Parliament is concerned, we have always opposed all the wrong policies of the government. Currently, the issue for us is the way the homes and shops of people of Bihar, UP, and Purvanchal are being bulldozed and destroyed. This is the issue we will raise in Parliament in the context of Delhi."
"We said that officially, the Aam Aadmi Party is not with the INDIA alliance as of today. Our alliance was for the Lok Sabha elections," he added. (ANI)
A virtual meeting of the INDIA bloc was held on Saturday, which was attended by leaders and representatives of the alliance parties.
They included Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Smt Sonia Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, NCP (SP) leader Sharad Pawar, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray.
The virtual meeting was also attended by Abhishek Banerjee (TMC), Tejashwi Yadav (RJD), Ramgopal Yadav (Samajwadi Party), MA Baby (CPI-M), D Raja (CPI), and Tiruchi Siva (DMK).
Congress leader Pramod Tiwari said that the INDIA parties expressed their concern over the SIR in Bihar. He said it was felt that there was an undeclared emergency during which voters' names were being removed from the list.
"The meeting discussed issues related to the people of the country that we will raise during the monsoon session. With everyone's consent, eight main issues have come up in the meeting - Pahalgam terror attack, Operation Sindoor, Trump's statement on ceasefire and trade, SIR (Special Intensive Revision) in Bihar, foreign policy, delimitation, and the issue of atrocities against Dalits, STs, and women," Tiwari said.
Earlier, the Election Commission on Friday said that 95.92% of electors in Bihar have been covered under the draft electoral list as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, with six more days remaining.
As per official data, out of 7.89 crore total electors (as of June 24, 2025), over 7.57 crore total electors have been covered.
Around 4.08%, i.e., 32.23 lakh remaining enumeration forms, are yet to be received, the release said.
It said during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the Electoral Rolls in Bihar, the entire electoral machinery, that is, nearly 1 lakh BLOs, 4 lakh volunteers, and 1.5 lakh BLAs appointed by the political parties and their district presidents, are working together in a mission mode to ensure that the name of no eligible elector is left out from the draft Electoral Roll to be published on August 1, 2025. (ANI)