Bihar Electoral Roll SIR: EC Finds 18 lakh Lifeless, 7 Lakh Duplicate Voters | India Information
Bihar Electoral Roll SIR: In a startling revelation, the Election Fee of India right now shared that in the course of the Particular Intensive Revision of the electoral roll in Bihar, it has discovered that 18 lakh lifeless voters nonetheless exist within the system. The ECI additionally discovered that there are seven lakh duplicate voters enrolled in two constituencies whereas 26 lakh voters have shifted to a different constituency. The Election Fee shared that out of the entire 7,89,69,844 voters, 90.67% or 7,16,04102 have stuffed the enumeration varieties up to now.
Amid criticism from the opposition, the Election Fee stated that it has shared listing of voters with the political events. “CEO/DEOs/EROs/BLOs have held conferences with the representatives of all political events and have shared detailed lists of the 21.36 lakh electors whose Types haven’t been acquired up to now and in addition of the almost 52.30 lakh electors who’re reportedly deceased or completely shifted or have enrolled at a number of locations,” stated the ECI in a press release.
The ECI stated that the voters may have one month time to file objection and get rectification performed. “As per the SIR order dated 24.06.2025, from August 1 to September 1, 2025, a full one-month can be obtainable to any member of the general public to file objections for any additions, deletions and rectification in Draft Electoral Rolls,” it stated.
In response to the Election Fee of India, almost 1 lakh BLOs, 4 lakh volunteers and 1.5 lakh BLAs appointed by the District Presidents of all of the 12 main political events in Bihar are working collectively to go looking these electors who’re but to submit their Enumeration Types (EFs) or haven’t been discovered at their addresses.
Political events like RJD, Congress, Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Occasion have accused the ECI of being palms in gloves with the BJP. They’ve alleged that the ECI will exclude crores of voters from the listing together with backwards communities, Dalits and minorities.
