Voter List Controversy Rocks Bihar: Opposition Alleges ‘Theft’ as EC Defends Revision
A fierce political storm has erupted in Bihar over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with opposition leader Rahul Gandhi launching a ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ and accusing the Election Commission (EC) of orchestrating ‘vote theft’ to manipulate upcoming elections. While the Supreme Court has intervened, directing the EC to publish a searchable list of approximately 65 lakh excluded voters with reasons for their removal, the EC vehemently defends the process as a transparent and lawful exercise to purify the voter list, refuting allegations of bias. [6, 7, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39]