NEW DELHI: The Election Fee on Sunday, in its first presser for the reason that controversial particular intensive revision (SIR) in Bihar, dismissed the opposition’s claims of biased strategy in the direction of any political social gathering and mentioned that there was “no ruling facet or opposition for us”. “As per the Structure of India, each citizen of India who has attained the age of 18 years should turn out to be a voter and should additionally vote. You all know that, as per the legislation, each political social gathering is born by way of registration with the Election Fee,” Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar mentioned.Then how can the Election Fee discriminate among the many similar political events? For the Election Fee, all are equal. Regardless of who belongs to any political social gathering, the Election Fee won’t step again from its constitutional obligation,” he added.He additional raised considerations over some events and leaders “spreading misinformation on SIR in Bihar.”Dismissing “vote chori” claims made by the opposition leaders, and extra just lately by Rahul Gandhi, Kumar questioned saying, “multiple crore workers engaged in election train, can ‘vote chori’ occur in such clear course of.”“Within the means of Lok Sabha elections, multiple crore workers, greater than 10 lakh sales space stage brokers, greater than 20 lakh polling brokers of candidates work for the elections. In such a clear course of in entrance of so many individuals, can any voter steal votes?” he mentioned.On conducting SIR in West Bengal, CEC mentioned that the three election commissioners will determine when the train could be carried out in Bengal or different states.Earlier within the day, Rahul Gandhi slammed the EC’s Particular Intensive Revision in Bihar as a “conspiracy to steal” the upcoming polls.“I’m telling you from this stage that Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha elections are being stolen in the complete nation. Their newest conspiracy is to conduct SIR in Bihar and steal the Bihar elections as effectively. All of us have come to this stage to let you know that we are going to not allow them to steal this election,” Rahul Gandhi mentioned at Congress’s ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ occasion.The ballot physique and state CEOs have repeatedly refuted Rahul Gandhi’s Aug 7 “vote chori” allegations and comparable opposition claims by way of fact-checks on social media.EC on Saturday reiterated that electors and political events have a month-long interval to submit claims and objections previous to the publication of the ultimate roll. Past this, they’ll nonetheless pursue a two-stage enchantment—initially with the district Justice of the Peace (DM) and thereafter with the chief electoral officer (CEO).“It appears some political events and their sales space stage brokers didn’t study the electoral rolls on the applicable time (throughout claims and objections after which, the enchantment interval) and didn’t level out errors, if any, to SDMs/EROs, DEOs or CEOs,” EC mentioned, including if completed on the “proper time by way of the precise channels, it could have enabled the SDM/ERO to right the errors, if real, earlier than these elections,” it mentioned.It mentioned that the parliamentary and meeting election system is a multi-layered, decentralized setup. Sub-Divisional Magistrates act as Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), assisted by Sales space Degree Officers (BLOs), to organize and finalize electoral rolls and guarantee their accuracy. As soon as the draft roll is revealed, each digital and bodily copies are shared with political events and uploaded on the ECI web site.