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In a democracy of 1.4 billion, every vote matters. But for millions of migrants from Bihar, democracy is quietly leaving them behind. A silent crisis is unfolding, where the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of State electoral rolls, and at short notice, has led to the mass deletion of nearly 3.5 million migrants (4.4% of the…
In what must be seen as a rap on the knuckles of the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Supreme Court of India ordered it to publish the names of 65 lakh voters excluded from Bihar’s draft electoral roll, and the reasons, following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. That it required the Court to…
NEW DELHI: In response to queries raised under the Right To Information (RTI) Act seeking copies of the independent appraisal undertaken based on which the Election Commission of India decided to initiate a special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across the country this year, and related files on the decision, the commission has simply…
Poll duty: An officer checks documents during the SIR of electoral rolls at Jogbani in Araria district of Bihar. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Saturday (August 30, 2025) that it had received more than 1.97 lakh requests from individuals to exclude names from the voters’ list…
MP Akhilesh Yadav joins last leg of Voter Adhikar Yatra (Image credits: ANI) NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday criticised the Election Commission of (EC), alleging that the poll body has become the “Jugaad Commission” of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Yadav arrived in Bihar to join the 16-day Voter Adhikar…
Rahul Gandhi during the Voter Adhikar Yatra, in Bihar. (AICC via PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday escalated his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Election Commission of India (ECI), calling the much-touted “Gujarat Model” a “model of vote-chori (poll theft).”“It (‘vote chori’) was happening in Gujarat before 2014….
NEW DELHI: A police complaint was filed against RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday over his two EPICs matter. The complaint was filed by an advocate, Rajiv Ranjan, in Patna’s Digha Police Station.No case has been registered yet.This comes after the Election Commission of India issued a notice to Yadav after it was found that…
NEW DELHI: A day after top RJD functionary Tejashwi Prasad Yadav claimed that a search of Bihar’s draft electoral roll with his EPIC No. RAB2916120 had found his name missing, only to be “fact-checked” by the Election Commission that his name and actual EPIC No. RAB0456228 were very much included in the voter list, the…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday slammed the Election Commission of India (ECI) for adding approximately 6.5 lakh “migrant workers” to the electoral roll of Tamil Nadu, while around 65 lakh people were termed “permanently migrated” and were removed from Bihar’s voter list.He called the move under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)…
PATNA/NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday slammed Congress neta Rahul Gandhi for claiming to have an “atom bomb of evidence of vote theft” against Election Commission of India, and dared him to detonate the explosive.At an event organised by a media house in Patna, Singh also likened the upcoming state polls to a…
