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Alleging respective irregularities successful the last voters database successful Bihar, the Congress connected Saturday (October 4, 2025) claimed that the fig of elector names deleted exceeds the triumph borderline of the past assembly predetermination successful immoderate constituencies.
The Opposition enactment besides alleged that the Election Commission was a "puppet" successful the hands of the ruling enactment and had conducted the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful Bihar with the intent of providing governmental vantage to the BJP and its allies.
In a station on X, Congress General Secretary (Communications) Jairam Ramesh fired a caller salvo astatine the Election Commission, saying it should enactment impartially and not arsenic the "B-team" of the BJP.
He besides cited quality reports claiming that determination are 247 radical successful a azygous location successful Jamui successful Bihar, and alleged that determination are respective irregularities successful the last electoral rotation database aft the SIR exercise.
"The Election Commission has orchestrated the full SIR play astatine the behest of the BJP. Even the claims of reforms by the Election Commission successful the last SIR are proving to beryllium wrong.
"Reports are coming successful from each regions of Bihar that corroborate the sole intent of the full process is to supply governmental vantage to the BJP and its allied parties," helium claimed successful his station successful Hindi.
Even aft the SIR process, galore instances of irregularities successful the last database bespeak that the Election Commission has nary respect for the wide orders of the Supreme Court, Mr. Ramesh alleged.
"Functioning arsenic the B-team of the BJP, the Election Commission has descended into implicit shamelessness.
"Will Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar explicate however 247 voters were recovered successful a azygous household and wherefore 1 person's sanction appears 3-3 times connected the aforesaid booth? How are specified monolithic irregularities surfacing successful the last elector list? Or volition they, arsenic before, stay silent?" the Congress person asked.
"The concerning facet is that successful immoderate assembly constituencies, the fig of voters' names being deleted exceeds the triumph borderline from the erstwhile elections," Mr. Ramesh besides claimed.
He said the Congress has been saying since time 1 that the Election Commission belongs to the full state and "should not look similar a puppet of the ruling party".
The existent "lax functioning and politically biased policies" of the Election Commission are adversely affecting India's ideology and our planetary image, helium claimed.
"We are reiterating erstwhile again that alternatively of rushing to implicit the SIR process initiated to assistance the BJP, the Election Commission should enactment impartially," Mr. Ramesh said.
The Congress has been accusing the EC of conducting the SIR with an purpose of deleting votes of Congress supporters and had adjacent approached the Supreme Court, on with different parties to halt the exercise.
The Election Commission has denied immoderate irregularities and has claimed that it is conducting the SIR successful accordance with the instrumentality and the Constitution.
