EC says Opposition's bulk objections to Bihar voter roll revision not valid under procedure
Election Commission
(EC) has defended its handling of Bihar's
special intensive revision
(SIR) of electoral rolls, saying objections submitted by opposition parties were not processed as they were sent in bulk rather than individually, as required under the prescribed 'claims and objections' procedure. The submissions, the EC said, are instead being treated as general complaints and are being verified, reported TOI.
The clarification follows allegations by the opposition INDIA bloc that the EC was 'doing politics' and creating a 'narrative' that no political party had raised concerns about the draft voter roll published on August 1. In its Tuesday bulletin, the EC reiterated that no recognised national or state party had filed formal claims or objections in the 11 days since publication, though it confirmed receiving 13,970 submissions from individual electors, with 341 already disposed of, as per the TOI report.
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Leader of Opposition in the
Bihar Assembly
,
Tejashwi Pratap Yadav
, said the bloc's issue was not with the SIR itself but with how it was conducted. He alleged large-scale deletions of names, absence of documents for some electors, and removal of voters living outside the state, accusing the BJP of using the EC to achieve 'what it has failed to do itself.' He also claimed the EC ignored Supreme Court guidance and cited the case of Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha allegedly holding two voter ID cards.
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Congress legislature party leader Shakeel Ahmad Khan said 'an uncountable number' of objections had been sent but were 'denied' by the EC, adding that
Rahul Gandhi
's request to meet officials with proof of alleged 'vote theft' was declined. RJD spokesperson Chitranjan Gagan said the opposition had sought a category-wise list of voters marked as dead, shifted, or duplicated but did not receive it, making it difficult to file objections in the prescribed format.
CPI-ML state secretary Kunal said hundreds of objections had been submitted through booth-level and local committees, including one case where 63 names were deleted under the Jale Assembly constituency. He alleged the EC was 'trying to set a narrative' that there was nothing wrong with the rolls.
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An EC official maintained that the objections were not in the required format. 'They were supposed not to send the claims/objections in bulk but one by one. So they were not entertained,' TOI quoted the official as saying, adding that they are now being reviewed as general complaints to check their validity.
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