The Patna District Election Officer-cum-District Magistrate, expressed delight at the significant increase in the number of electors and appealed to all stakeholders for active participation in the upcoming Bihar Legislative Assembly General Election.
After Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that "someone tried to delete 6,018 votes" in Karnataka's Aland Assembly constituency, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday clarified that no wrongful deletions took place.
BJP leader Amit Malviya on Wednesday said that Kota Neelima, wife of Congress leader Pawan Khera, holds two active Electors Photo Identification Cards (EPICs)-- one registered in Khairatabad and another in New Delhi.
The EC received 118 claims and objections in total from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2025 of the electoral rolls in Bihar.
Speaking to ANI, on the issue of vote theft, Tiwari said, "BJP people need to open their eyes. The public uprising in Bihar is turning into revolution. There has been a two-way theft. On one hand 65 lakh electors have been deleted and on another side around 1000 people are found in one house
According to the ECI, this translates to an average daily collection rate of about 1.64 per cent. With the deadline set for September 1, only 0.89 per cent of electors have yet to submit their documents.
The Election Commission has received documents of 98.2 per cent of electors in Bihar with eight days left in the Claims, Objections and Documents period of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in the state, the ECI said on Sunday.
The Election Commission has filed affidavit in the Supreme Court saying the list of names and details of 65 lakh electors in Bihar who were not included in the draft roll published on August 1 had been posted on the websites of all 38 District Electoral Officers in the state.
According to an official release, the EC conducted 4,719 all-party meetings that included 40 meetings by Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs), 800 by District Election Officers (DEOs), and 3,879 by Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), engaging over 28,000 representatives of various politica
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi also asked ECI to give wide publicity of the same through local newspapers, Doordarshan, radio or any official social media platform.