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In keeping with a PTI report, representatives from 11 events—together with the Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML) Liberation, NCP-SP, and Samajwadi Occasion—met Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and different commissioners to voice their considerations over the revision drive.
‘This disenfranchisement is worst assault on Structure’s primary construction’: Abhishek Singhvi
After the assembly, Congress chief Abhishek Singhvi warned of a possible disenfranchisement disaster, stating, “A minimal of two crore individuals could also be disenfranchised on this train as many, particularly the SCs, STs, migratory and impoverished, among the many almost eight crore voters in Bihar might not be able to current their and their mother and father’ delivery certificates to the ballot authorities in such a brief interval.”
Singhvi criticised the timing of the revision, arguing that if elections held over the previous 20 years had been primarily based on the identical rolls, questioning their validity now was unreasonable. “This disenfranchisement, disempowerment is the worst assault on the fundamental construction of the Structure,” he asserted, including that deleting or wrongly including even one voter impacts elections and democracy.
He highlighted the challenges confronted by backward communities, flood-affected residents, and migrant employees in securing required paperwork inside the stipulated time, saying, “It’s simple to say that the volunteers will assist him, but when an individual doesn’t get the certificates inside the time restrict, that particular person loses a spot within the electoral roll.”
RJD chief Manoj Jha described the assembly with the EC as “not cordial” and expressed disappointment on the ballot physique’s response, saying, “Is that this an effort to disenfranchise folks? The 20 per cent Biharis who migrate exterior the state are the goal. If the aim of an train turns into exclusion as a substitute of inclusion, what ought to we do?”
He criticised what he termed an absence of concern for the poor and backward lessons in Bihar, questioning whether or not the drive’s goal was to establish so-called “uncertain voters.”
CPI(ML) chief alleges ‘votebandi’
CPI(ML) Normal Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya stated the events’ considerations had deepened following the assembly, as they “didn’t get any passable reply.” He said that the EC had instructed them that voters listed since 2003 could be presumed residents of India, whereas others must show citizenship—a transfer he argued disproportionately impacts the poor who could lack documentation.
“We stated this reminds folks of Bihar of ‘notebandi’ (demonetisation), and it’s being known as ‘votebandi’ (disenfranchisement) in Bihar,” he stated. Bhattacharya warned, “Should you intrude with ‘one person-one vote’, we’ll take motion.”
EC defends timing, denies exclusion motive
In keeping with PTI, Election Fee sources indicated that whereas some representatives had prior appointments, others had been allowed to affix because the Fee agreed to fulfill two representatives from every social gathering. The EC instructed the delegation that the SIR was being performed as per Article 326 of the Structure, the Illustration of the Folks Act, 1950, and directions issued on 24 June 2025.
The ballot physique maintained that the revision’s goal was to take away ineligible names and embrace all eligible residents, making certain a good electoral course of. It harassed that further safeguards had been put in place to forestall unlawful migrants from being enrolled.
