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Informist, Wednesday, Jul. 9, 2025

 

NEW DELHI – Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, and several other leaders held a protest march in Patna Wednesday to protest the electoral rolls revision in Bihar ahead of Assembly elections. The senior Congress leader slammed the Election Commission of India for allegedly working to benefit the Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming Assembly polls. The elections are scheduled in the state in Oct-Nov.

 

"I want to say it clearly to Election Commission of India - electoral roll revision is an attempt to manipulate Bihar assembly polls. They want to snatch the voting rights of poor people. But they don't know this is Bihar and Bihar's population will never let this happen," Gandhi said.

 

"The election commissioners are talking like the BJP leaders," Gandhi said, adding that the law will take its course later on against the alleged misdeeds of elections commissioners.

 

Gandhi was joined by the Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and former deputy chief minister of Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav, the Communist Party of India General Secretary D. Raja, and hordes of workers from the Congress, the RJD, the CPI and other allies.

 

The poll panel launched the revision on Jun. 24 to add the names of eligible citizens to the voter list and weed out ineligible voters. Before this, the last such revision for Bihar was done in 2003. The poll panel has reasoned that rapid urbanisation, frequent migration, young citizens becoming eligible to vote, non-reporting of deaths, and the inclusion of names of foreign illegal immigrants, have made this revision necessary. However, the opposition parties have said that the voter list revision carries the risk of "willful exclusion" of voters using state machinery.

 

Bihar has 78.96 million electors, of which 49.6 million are already in the last intensive revision of electoral roll. These electors will simply have to verify themselves by filling out the enumeration form.  End

 

Reported by Kuldeep Singh

Edited by Deephikha Bhardwaj

 

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