The Election Commission of India (ECI) has made an important move towards transparency and accountability by publishing the names of 6.5 million voters removed from the Bihar draft electoral roll after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday met a group of seven people from Bihar, who were declared as “dead voters,” by the Election Commission in the recently published draft voter rolls in the state.
Amid opposition protest due to anomalies investigation on Fake vote scam by Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Bihar, the case of Minta Devi, a first-time voter from Siwan district whose age was listed as 124 years in the voters’ list, has drawn attention.
A political dispute has arisen in Bihar after RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav accused Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha of holding two voter ID cards, one for each of the Lakhisarai and Bankipur Assembly constituencies.
Parliament on Monday passed eight Bills as Union minister Kiren Rijiju slammed the opposition parties for repeated disruptions of both the Houses of Parliament and announced that the government would proceed with the legislative agenda without their participation.
The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will set out on the ‘Matdata Adhikar (voters’ rights) Yatra’ in Bihar in three phases covering 30 districts from August 17.
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.
A new report by India’s top government auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), has found serious problems in how Bihar used public money in 2023–24. According to the report, the State government spent over ₹70,000 crore without giving any proof of how or where the money was used.
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.”
