Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday slammed the Election Commission of India and the BJP, calling the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll in Bihar, an "institutionalised way" of stealing votes.
In a case from Bhagalpur district in Bihar, two women who came from Pakistan in 1956 were issued voter ID cards, and even got verified during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. However, the glitch was flagged by the Home Ministry.
The two leaders rode motorcycles during the 'Yatra', which seeks to highlight alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.
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.
Addressing the gathering at the 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' against Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, Gandhi raised the slogan "Vote Chor Gaddi Chhodd".
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday accused Leader of Opposition (LoP) Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi of speaking "nonsense" to grab headlines in the news.
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PM Modi on Friday hit out at the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government and Congress for the "appeasement" politics and said they are "encouraging infiltration only for the greed of power."
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said that an individual person, at their own or with the assistance of booth-level agents (BLAs) of a political party, is entitled to apply online and does not need to submit the application in physical form.
He said, "From the Red Fort, I have talked about one danger. This danger is on Bihar too. The increasing population of illegal immigrants in the country is a matter of concern. In the bordering areas of Bihar, demography is rapidly changing. The NDA government has decided not to let illeg
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) has filed two claims and objections to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Bihar, a press release by the Election Commission said.