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Time of India
20 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
RJD's Tejashwi accuses CEC of 'working on directions' of Modi
RJD leader Tejaswhi Yadav on Monday charged Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar with working on the direction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and asked the poll panel chief to submit an affidavit that he would not hold any position offered by the NDA government post retirement. Yadav made the remark in a video statement released on Monday, a day after the CEC rejected as "baseless" the allegations of double voting and "vote theft", and asserted that all stakeholders are working to make the special intensive revision of electoral rolls a success in a transparent manner. "Yesterday's press conference of the EC established the fact that the CEC is working on the directions of PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. In fact, the CEC should first give an affidavit that he would not hold any post of profit after retirement offered by the BJP-led NDA government. He should also give an affidavit that he will not leave the country after retirement," the RJD leader said. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Algeria Solar Panels: See How Much It Will Cost To Install Them (See Prices) Solar Panel | Search Ads Learn More "The EC has been totally exposed... replies and arguments provided by the CEC yesterday were meaningless. Even a nursery student could have given a better reply. The CEC is deceiving the country and its people," Yadav asserted. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Monday, representatives of eight prominent opposition parties - Congress, TMC, SP, DMK, RJD, CPI(M), AAP and SS-UBT - said the CEC had "failed" to answer their questions on the SIR of electoral rolls and issues related to voter list irregularities. Live Events The opposition parties accused the Election Commission of failing to discharge its constitutional duty of ensuring a free and fair electoral system, and did not rule out moving an impeachment motion against the CEC, whom they alleged was acting like a "BJP spokesperson".
NDTV
23-07-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
Bihar Voter List Revision Could Cut 23,000 Per Constituency Before Election
New Delhi: Fifty-six lakh people across Bihar will be removed from the voter list after the Election Commission 's ' special intensive revision ', the poll panel said Wednesday evening. The list of 'unverified' voters include 20 lakh dead people, 28 lakh whose primary residence is now in another state (making them ineligible to voter in Bihar), and seven lakh registered in more than one place. An additional one lakh people on the curent list cannot be contacted. Meanwhile, a further 15 lakh voters did not return verification forms, meaning they too are likley to find themselves struck off the roll when voting begins later this year. On Tuesday the poll panel said around 52 lakh entries had been deleted, and last week that a number of registered 'voters' were from foreign countries. Meanwhile, The re-verification of voters - a regular and constitutionally mandated exercise - has run into problems in Bihar because of the proximity of the exercise to the Assembly election. The opposition has criticised the timing and alleged it was orchestrated to eat into its voter base. The reference was to voters from poorer and marginalised sections, who may struggle to gather thedocuments - not including even the EC's own ID card - needed to re-verify themselves. NDTV Explains | Row Over 'Special Intensive Revision' Of Bihar Voter List Challenges to the exercise were filed in the Supreme Court. The matter is being heard and the court allowed the revision to continue for now, but it did also ask questions about the timing. The court also directed the EC to ensure the process is completed, including hearing and settling of appeals by people removed from the list, before the election. The EC has said the final list will be published September 30. What This Means For Bihar Election The state has 243 constituencies. Deletion of 56 lakh names from the voter list means an average of 23,045 voters per constituency will not be allowed to vote. The opposition has said that even a one per cent purge of names on the existing list of voters - a list used for the past 10 major elections in the state - would be unacceptable. For context, a one per cent exclusion is around 7.9 lakh voters or about 3,251 voters per constituency. In the 2020 election the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal lost 52 seats by margins of 5,000 or fewer votes and 40 by margins of 3,500 or fewer. The RJD won 75 seats - the most by any one party - but still fell short of the halfway mark of 123 after its ally, the Congress, flopped. Combined, the RJD-led alliance won 110 seats. The political slugfest between the opposition RJD-Congress and the ruling BJP-JDU played out ferociously in the Bihar Assembly this afternoon, with the RJD's Tejaswhi Yadav and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of the JDU leading their parties' charge. There was also a big twist after a MP from Nitish Kumar's party, Girdhari Yadav, offered his 'personal opinion' - that the Election Commission had "forcefully imposed" the voter list revision.
