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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.”

With less than a year left for the Assembly Election in West Bengal, the Election Commission (EC) has directed the Mamata Banerjee government to “delink” the office of Chief Electoral Officer (West Bengal) from its home department, create a election department with financial autonomy and fill up the vacant posts under it.