Election Commission Clarifies Bihar Draft Poll Roll Is Not Final

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• The Election Commission (EC) clarifies that the draft voters’ list for Bihar is not the final list,with corrections allowed from August 1 to September 1.
• Phase one of Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters’ lists involved house-to-house surveys, semi-filled enumeration forms distributed and collected from 7.24 crore electors.
• Findings:

– 36 lakh electors either permanently shifted or were not found.
– Seven lakh names enrolled at multiple locations require correction.

• Opposition parties,including Congress and allies in the INDIA bloc,criticize the voter roll revision process,claiming disenfranchisement risks and comparing it to a “citizenship test.”
• BJP defends EC’s initiative as necessary for transparency and accuses opposition parties of exploiting voter demographics through foreign infiltrators.

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