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Process is not so transparent: Prashant Kishor on voter list revision in B
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor on Monday raised concerns over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in Bihar, saying that many poor people may lose their voting rights because the Election Commission is not following a clear and fair process.
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Bihar SIR: "Election Commission has become puppet commission," alleges Tej
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Speaking to reporters here, Yadav said, "The SIR process is almost complete, but the way this process has been completed, the level of rigging that has taken place is probably unprecedented. We have repeatedly urged the Election Commission to ensure that the voter list is impartial... Wha
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Bihar polls: SC asks ECI to consider Aadhaar, voter ID card in SIR of elec
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Supreme Court on Monday again asked the Election Commission of India to consider including the Aadhaar card and the electoral photo identity card as admissible documents to prove the identity of voters during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being undertaken in Bih
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Suvendu Adhikari urges ECI to exclude domicile certificates issued after J
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari on Monday wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner, urging him to ensure that no domicile certificates issued on or after July 25, 2025, are accepted during the Special Intensive Re
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"50 years since Emergency, but Congress ideology has not changed": Sudhans
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Sunday criticised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on the Election Commission, saying they reflect an unchanged "ideology" even 50 years after the Emergency.
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Bihar SIR exercise uncovers 35 lakh untraced voters, raises concern over e
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The massive scale of untraced electors in Bihar has prompted questions about what the national SIR might uncover across India's electoral landscape. Political parties accross the spectrum have repeatedly raised issues regarding the purity of the electoral roll, especially the addition of vot
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"Election Commission's solemn duty to conduct fair elections": Congress le
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Election Commission of India is conducting a Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar ahead of the assembly elections in the state.
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"Exercise done to exclude voters": TMC leader Sushmita Dev hits out at Cen
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Dev termed it a "match fixing" between ECI and BJP and an attempt to "exclude" voters rather than include them.
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"SIR has become another method of vote theft; EC is behaving like an assoc
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Amid the ongoing protest by the opposition against the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Congress leader and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday accused the Election Commission of enabling "vote theft," alleging that 64 lakh illegitimate voters could increase
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"ECI has started acting like Bangladesh Election Commission": RJD MP Manoj
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
RJD MP said that the Election Commission of India has started acting like the Bangladesh Election Commission.
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"Opposition should now adopt positive approach, cooperate with Election Co
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
As per the latest data released by the Election Commission of India on July 25, 99.8 per cent of Bihar electors have been covered so far in the Special Intensive Revision exercise.
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"Will seek revenge" against BJP: VIP founder Mukesh Sahani vows to form go
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
"I will definitely seek revenge. We were servants for so long, we worked hard in the state to get elected and work for our people by staying in the government. We had 4 leaders and doing work of the people, so they (BJP) poached our MLAs and threw us out of the government we formed, this
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