NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday raised questions with the Election Fee of India (ECI) following its ‘evaluation’ of Bihar’s voter checklist after the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR). In an announcement, the occasion’s Empowered Motion Group of Leaders and Consultants (EAGLE) stated the ECI launched the ultimate checklist of seven.42 crore registered voters for the upcoming Bihar meeting elections, nevertheless it didn’t present. a machine-readable model of the voter checklist, which made evaluation troublesome. It requested why ECI was hesitant to make the checklist simpler to analyse.
Primarily based on a preliminary examine, Congress highlighted a number of points. It stated that for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Bihar had 7.72 crore registered voters, which means 30 lakh individuals from that checklist had been now lacking from the meeting voter checklist, the occasion alleged. The occasion additionally famous that whereas the ECI added 21.53 lakh voters in Bihar, Kind 6 was out there for under 16.93 lakh, leaving 4.6 lakh unaccounted for. In whole, 67.3 lakh voters had been deleted throughout SIR, with over one-tenth of those deletions in simply 15 meeting constituencies, it stated. Congress questioned why the ECI had not made the ultimate checklist of deleted voters public by sales space and class.The occasion additionally stated its evaluation discovered over 5 lakh duplicate entries within the ultimate checklist, questioning the effectiveness of the SIR train. It stated that the ultimate electoral roll ought to be frozen on the final date of nomination, and no supplementary lists ought to change the voter base, insisting that elections be held strictly on the finalized checklist.In the meantime, ECI on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court docket that every one political events have expressed satisfaction with the train and no appeals have been filed difficult the deletions. When requested on Monday concerning the variety of unlawful overseas immigrants faraway from Bihar’s electoral rolls in the course of the SIR, chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar didn’t present a determine, saying the EC doesn’t have that information subject.The Bihar meeting polls will happen in two phases on November 6 and 11. The counting of votes will happen on November 14.