The Patna district administration earlier responded to Tejashwi Yadav’s allegation by releasing a screenshot from the draft electoral rolls, clearly displaying the names and images of the RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav, in addition to his father and RJD president, Lalu Prasad Yadav.
The Election Fee of India (EC) has declared as faux the EPIC (Electoral Picture Identification Card) quantity displayed by Tejashwi Yadav throughout a press convention. The cardboard quantity proven, RAB2916120, was discovered to be unauthorised and doesn’t match any file within the EC’s database. This has raised critical considerations concerning the authenticity of the doc offered by the Bihar Chief of Opposition.
Election Fee points discover and deadlines
The EC has now issued a recent discover to Tejashwi Yadav, asking him to submit the unique EPIC card for verification by August 16, 2025, 5:00 PM. The discover factors out that in Tejashwi’s nomination papers filed in 2015 and 2020 for the Raghopur Meeting constituency, the EPIC quantity recorded was RAB0456228. This quantity additionally seems within the newest Particular Intensive Revision 2025 information submitted by the Sales space Stage Officer (BLO) in the course of the voter listing replace.
Regardless of these official information, the EPIC quantity offered on the August 2 (Sunday) press occasion (RAB2916120) was not present in the whole electoral database of India, resulting in allegations that the cardboard proven is counterfeit.
Tejashwi had first alleged that his title was not there within the new draft voter listing launched on August 1, and later he alleged that his EPIC quantity had been modified.
Authorized Implications and EC’s Warning
The Election Fee reminded that creating or utilizing faux authorities paperwork is a punishable offence underneath the regulation. Accordingly, it has strongly urged Tejashwi Yadav handy over the suspect EPIC card to the Electoral Registration Officer’s workplace by the stipulated deadline.
The matter factors to critical electoral integrity considerations and has attracted widespread consideration in political circles. The EC’s transfer to hunt clarification goals at making certain transparency and upholding the credibility of the voter registration system.