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"Need to protect rights of voters and Constitution": Congress to Protest i
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Congress will hold a protest in Bengaluru's Freedom Park on August 5 to highlight alleged election-related irregularities and defend voter rights. Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar announced that Rahul Gandhi will lead the initiative, which aims to bring national attention to electoral
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Bihar draft electoral rolls to be published tomorrow, physical and digital
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Election Commission had said on Sunday that out of 7.89 crore registered voters in Bihar, over 7.24 crore electors have submitted their enumeration forms under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) held from June 24 to July 25
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Bihar polls: SC asks ECI to consider Aadhaar, voter ID card in SIR of elec
Updated : 7 months, 2 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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Over 7.24 crore voters submitted forms in Bihar SIR, reflecting 91.69% par
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Commission described the SIR as a "massive and successful citizen participation effort" across the state, aimed at enhancing the accuracy of the electoral rolls ahead of upcoming assembly elections.
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Bihar SIR exercise uncovers 35 lakh untraced voters, raises concern over e
Updated : 7 months, 2 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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"Exercise done to exclude voters": TMC leader Sushmita Dev hits out at Cen
Updated : 7 months, 2 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, 2 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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"SIR is in accordance with Constitution.. Why is the opposition afraid?" U
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh on Friday supports the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists, emphasizing its role in ensuring fair elections. He argued that the process, aimed at removing non-citizens, duplicate voters, and those permanently resi
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"Why was SIR brought?" asks TMC MP Shatrughan Sinha
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar has erupted a massive row in the country, with the opposition INDIA bloc alleging that it will delete a significant chunk of voters.
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"If you cannot defeat us, you seek to delete us," CM MK Stalin amid protes
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin alleged that Special Intensive Revision is being misused to quietly "erase" voters from disadvantaged and dissenting communities as both Houses of the Parliament were adjourned till Monday after uproar over the exercise in the poll-bound Bihar.
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"EC exerting its monopoly, working on instructions of government": SP MP D
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"The whole opposition stands united because somewhere we all can see that the Election Commission is exerting its monopoly and working on the instructions of the government. This government is destroying the democratic setup of the country... If the Election Commission had to do this exer
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Why not provide voter list? There should be transparency: Priyanka Gandhi
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"They should respond to the allegations. They should provide us with the voters' list, which we have been asking for. There should be transparency. It is a democracy. All political parties should have access to that information. Why is it not being provided?" Priyanka Gandhi told reporter
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