Bihar Polls: 1.5 Lakh BJP, JD(U), RJD Staff Help Electorates With Voter Record Revision
Not less than 1.5 lakh staff throughout social gathering strains are helping to safe the votes of three crore non-resident Biharis by making them perceive the particular intensive revision of voter listing forward of the meeting election.
The Election Fee’s (EC) choice to provoke a particular intensive revision (SIR) within the run-up to the meeting polls, has triggered a serious political controversy.
However in Bihar, not solely the BJP, however cadres from different events are additionally busy serving to electorates perceive the particular intensive revision (SIR), which has particular dos and don’ts, particularly the place Aadhaar just isn’t an admissible doc. Staff from all main events have fanned out throughout Bihar to make sure their voters usually are not excluded.
On the peak of the marketing campaign season, 1.55 lakh sales space stage brokers (BLA), together with these appointed by the BJP, Janata Dal (United), and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), are actively supporting the SIR. These BLAs, representing varied political events, help sales space stage officers (BLO) in duties like distribution and assortment of enumeration varieties and guiding voters.
The electoral registration officer will present enumeration varieties to the BLOs, who will then distribute these to voters by way of house visits. Voters also can add the varieties and supporting paperwork on-line. After the varieties are submitted and verified, a preliminary electoral roll will likely be accessible on the EC and CEO web sites, and will probably be shared with political events.
Each voters and political events may have the chance to lift objections to the draft listing. As soon as these objections are addressed, the ultimate electoral roll will likely be revealed.
A revised guideline states that voters should submit the finished varieties, whereas the paperwork will be submitted later. However, in a state with a 63.82 per cent literacy charge (as per authorities knowledge, although Bihar authorities’s caste survey claims it to be 79.7 per cent), many wrestle with paperwork and the complicated documentation course of, which many of those BLAs from BJP and JD(U) are serving to with.
The BJP has understood the importance of the three crore non-resident Biharis, whom they’ve been wooing over the previous 4 months by way of ‘Sneh Milan Karyakram’. However are effectively conscious that this will likely get affected by the SIR if varieties usually are not correctly crammed up or present paperwork.
The three crore non-resident Biharis can affect leads to a minimum of 80 meeting seats within the Bihar ballot. This is the reason, regardless of the BJP’s open help for the voter listing revision, it has mobilised its foot troopers to assist information them.
VOTER LIST REVISION TOOK PLACE 13 TIMES BEFORE
Congress and different INDIA bloc events have raised objections to the SIR and have attacked the EC, with the matter now within the Supreme Courtroom.
One of many first voices of discontent within the NDA is that of Upendra Kushwaha, who, not like Nitish Kumar, termed the time given by the ballot physique “not sufficient”.
The SIR just isn’t new, as intensive revisions have been carried out in 1952-56, 1957, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1983-84, 1987-89, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2003, and 2004, as per the EC – a reality which will put the Congress in a spot.
The final intensive revision for Bihar was carried out by the fee in 2003. This time, the EC has its causes for repeating the apply.
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar informed News18 on Monday (July 7) that not a single political social gathering is happy with the present standing of electoral rolls for various causes.
“Throughout the previous 4 months, all 4,123 EROs (electoral registration officer), 775 DEOs (district election officer), and 36 CEOs (chief electoral officer) have held almost 5,000 conferences with 28,000 political social gathering representatives. The ECI has additionally invited all recognised political events for interplay. Nobody was happy with the present standing of electoral rolls for one cause or one other,” he stated.
