Author: Esha Ghosh
The Supreme Court has once again urged the Election Commission to accept the Aadhaar card and the electoral photo identity card as valid documents for confirming voter identity during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral polls going on in Bihar.
After a stampede near the Mansa Devi temple in Haridwar killed eight people on Sunday morning, the police have filed a report against unknown individuals for spreading rumors about a broken electrical wire, which likely triggered a panic and led to the tragedy.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) began training Booth Level Officers in West Bengal on Saturday, while concerns have been raised that a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls being conducted in adjacent poll-bound Bihar will also be conducted in the state. West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal did not rule out during the training session that SIR would be conducted in the state as well.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) on Thursday served a show-cause notice to its MP Girdhari Yadav his inflammatory comments on the current special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state. The notice alleged that the comments “inadvertently lent credibility to the baseless and politically motivated allegations made by the Opposition.”