"128 seats out of the 202 won by the NDA came purely from SIR-based voter deletions. We analysed the voter deletion data published by the ECI as ordered by the Supreme Court and compared it with the victory margins in each constituency. The pattern is unmistakable: genuine, living voters
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that Bihar election has strengthened people's trust in the Election Commission as he backed the exercise of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being conducted in different states of the country by the Election Commission, statin
"SIR wasn't an issue at all. They should be aware of the ground reality. The people of Bihar have rejected them, and they have created such a face in Bihar that they were bound to be rejected by the people of Bihar," Kushwaha said.
As early trends showed the ruling NDA leading in the Bihar Assembly elections, Congress leader Udit Raj blamed the Election Commission and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists for his party's poor performance.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday criticised the hurried Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, comparing it to demonetisation. She said, "SIR is like a 'Vote Bandhi', earlier it was 'Note Bandhi'. They should have taken two years for the SIR process, why are you in
Tamil Maanila Congress General Secretary AS Munavar Basha slammed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, asking the reason from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) for opposing the Special Intensive Revision.
As the second phase of Bihar Assembly elections approaches, the political temperature soared on Saturday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah launching blistering attacks on the Opposition's 'Jungle Raj' legacy and promising to expel infiltrators, while Cong
Congress leader Pawan Khera, during a press conference in Patna alleged that the Union Home Minister Amit Shah secretly meets the officials, further claiming that the CCTV cameras in the elevators are sealed with paper.
With just two days due for the second phase of assembly elections in Bihar, Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Saturday expressed confidence that the state is poised to witness a change in government, while also raising concerns over alleged irregularities in the voter list.
Congress leader Pawan Khera alleged that people who have been casting votes for generations have been deleted from the voters' list in the first phase of the Bihar polls held on November 6. He accused the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Election Commission of India (ECI) of having all
Congress MP Imran Masood on Thursday claimed that many people were forced to return from polling stations as their names were missing from the voter list, saying that "voter list is corrupt" during the ongoing Bihar elections.