A large number of people from Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar have been found by Booth Level Officers during the house-to-house visits during the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls currently underway in poll-bound Bihar, according to the sources.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Dilip Jaiswal exuded confidence that the NDA will secure a two-thirds majority and form the government in Bihar, which heads to the polls later this year.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed the Election Commission to continue with its exercise of conducting a Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Motihari in Bihar on July 18, Bihar BJP chief Dilip Kumar Jaiswal said on Monday. This will mark PM Modi's 53rd visit to Bihar.
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president and Union Minister Chirag Paswan on Sunday officially announced his candidacy for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections while addressing a gathering in Saran.
According to a release, Madani warned that this "hasty and unclear process based on arbitrary and one-sided instructions" could disenfranchise millions of citizens, particularly migrant workers, minorities, and marginalised communities, by depriving them of their fundamental right to vote.
A day earlier, delegation of INDIA bloc leaders from 11 political parties met with the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the national capital to register their opposition to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls currently underway in Bihar, calling it the "worst atta
The ECI has claimed that the SIR is only meant to verify voters and to identify any 'ineligible voters' ahead of the Assembly elections which are expected to be held later this year in Bihar. However, multiple political parties part of the Opposition, including Congress and Bihar's Rashtriya
Following the Election Commission of India's decision to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar ahead of the state assembly polls, Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has affirmed that the main objective of the initiative isto avoid any "illegible" voter
While speaking to ANI on Sunday, the Patna DM stated that the exercise will include the mention of deceased people. The administration will verify the eligibility of people who have relocated to other places to remain on the electoral list.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has approved the list of party leaders, appointing them as observers for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, scheduled to be held later this year.