"Shocking figure": Congress MP Pramod Tiwari on draft voter list for Bihar
Congress MP Pramod Tiwari on Saturday criticised the Election Commission and the BJP after the release of a draft voter list for Bihar and said that removing the names of 65 lakh people is "shocking".
ANI
Aug 02, 2025 11:10 IST
New Delhi [India], August 2 (ANI): Congress MP Pramod Tiwari on Saturday criticised the Election Commission and the BJP after the release of a draft voter list for Bihar and said that removing the names of 65 lakh people is "shocking".
As the Election Commission of India (ECI) said that 7.24 crore electors out of the total 7.89 crore in Bihar have been included in the draft list, Congress MP Tiwari claimed that people from areas where minority communities are predominant have been removed.
"If 65 lakh names, especially from those districts and areas where minority communities, backward classes, and Dalit communities are predominant, have been removed (from the voter list), then this is a very shocking figure," Pramod Tiwari told ANI.
Reiterating Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's claim, he said, "Rahul Gandhi has rightly said that the Election Commission is doing this at the behest of the BJP government. If there is evidence, it will be provided. Just imagine what 65 lakh means."
The ECI on Friday released the draft voter list for Bihar, following a month-long special intensive revision (SIR) process. The EC said the public has one month to submit claims and objections, assuring that "no name will be removed from the draft voter list without a stated reason."
"The draft voter list has been released today in Bihar. One-month period for claims and objections begins; draft list shared with political parties. Still a full one month to get names added. No name will be removed from the draft voter list without a stated reason," the Commission stated in a statement on X.
According to a press release by the Election Commission, more than 7.24 crore electors of Bihar filled up the Enumeration Forms; all included in the draft Electoral Roll.
From August 1 to September 1: During this period, to add the name of any eligible elector or to delete the name of any ineligible elector, any elector or any political party, can file claims and objections in a prescribed form before the concerned ERO, the release said. (ANI)
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