"The way state is being run from Delhi on remote control, with either Prime Minister Amit Shah, they are the ones giving the orders. The SIR too is being done on their orders by the Election Commission. Before, it used to happen that voters choose the government, now it is flipped, governmen
The Lok Sabha LoP was responding to a question about 52 lakh voters being removed from the voter list in Bihar amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
He highlighted the difficulties faced by migrant voters, including his own son who resides in America, in complying with the signature requirements within the given timeframe.
"This raises serious questions about the legitimacy of past elections, the credibility of the voter roll, and the mandates Mamata Banerjee has claimed over the years. Ironically, it is the same Mamata Banerjee who, while in the opposition, had demanded a clean-up of the voter list, even c
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday raised concerns over the Election Commission of India's (ECI) Special Identification and Revision (SIR) process for voter lists in Bihar, questioning its timing, impartiality, and feasibility, especially for the state's large m
In her letter to the Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha, the party MP alleged that the government had been using the Election Commission of India (ECI) to push an "exclusionary" agenda under the guise of a voter list revision, aimed at stripping voting rights from large sections of society
Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday took a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, questioning the absence of a formal farewell and urging BJP leaders to check on his well-being.
According to the poll body, 52,30,126 electors, amounting to 6.62 per cent of the state's total registered voters, were either deceased, had shifted permanently, were enrolled at multiple locations, or were untraceable.
Earlier in the day, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha faced major disruptions on Tuesday, on the second day of the Monsoon Session, amid Opposition protest over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being undertaken by the Election Commission (EC) in Bihar ahead of the u