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Ruling and absorption parties of Bihar connected Saturday (October 4, 2025) demanded Election Commission of India (ECI) to implicit the voting successful a maximum of 1 oregon 2 phases successful the upcoming assembly predetermination successful Bihar.
The request was made during the gathering with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, on with Election Commissioners Vivek Joshi and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu.
The delegation of the ECI reached Patna connected Friday (October 3, 2025) nighttime for a two-day sojourn to reappraisal canvass preparedness for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. On the archetypal day, the ECI met the representatives of 12 recognised governmental parties, of which six were nationalist parties and six were determination parties.
Political parties demanded that elections beryllium held instantly aft the Chhath festival to summation elector information successful Bihar and suggested holding the elections successful arsenic fewer phases arsenic possible.
“We person fixed a fewer suggestions to the ECI that anterior to the voting, either 1 oregon 2 days successful advance, to transportation retired a emblem march of the para-military forces successful the villages of marginalised sections reside for the assurance building,” Bihar BJP President Dilip Kumar Jaiswal said portion speaking to the property aft the meeting.
He further said that the enactment besides suggested ECI to marque the arrangements of equine patrolling successful the riverine areas arsenic the chances of booth capturing is much successful those areas.
Mr. Jaiswal added, “We person suggested that voting successful the Bihar predetermination should beryllium completed either successful 1 oregon a maximum of 2 phases truthful that the expenditure of the candidates could beryllium reduced. Many institutions besides get affected owed to the poll. The faces of the women voters successful Burqa indispensable beryllium matched with the elector I-card with the assistance of women officers connected work truthful that genuine voters get the accidental to vote.”
BJP besides said that dates of voting should beryllium aft 28 days of the announcement of canvass dates.
JD-(U) moving president Sanjay Jha, who attended the gathering connected behalf of the party, besides demanded that voting should beryllium completed successful 1 signifier aft Chhath festival.
Chitranjan Gagan, nationalist wide caput of the RJD and enactment Lok Sabha subordinate Abhay Kushwaha, attended the gathering and demanded to uncover the names and reasons of 3.66 lakh voters whose names person been deleted successful the last database nether Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
RJD also asked who are the 21.53 lakh voters who person been added, are they the caller voters oregon among the 65 lakhs names deleted from the draught list. The absorption demanded to provide the fig of Form-6 (claims and objections) filed for caller (first-time voters) and re-inclusion separately.
The Commission urged parties to acquisition the transparency of elections and guarantee that governmental parties bash not hide to nominate their polling agents astatine each polling booth.
Several caller initiatives precocious taken by the Election Commission of India, specified arsenic counting of postal votes and provisions related to Form 17C, were wide appreciated.
The six nationalist parties were Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Communist Party of India (Marxist), Indian National Congress (INC) and National Pupils Party (NPP).
The six determination parties were Communist Party of India (Marxist- Leninist) (Liberation), Janata Dal-(United), Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP) and Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP).
Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) led by Mukesh Sahani and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) of Jitan Ram Manjhi was not invited successful the gathering being a non-recognised party.
Even RJD demanded to implicit the voting successful 2 phases. After gathering with the governmental parties, the ECI held a abstracted gathering with divisional commissioners, Inspector Generals, Deputy Inspector Generals (DIG) of Police, District Election Officers (DEOs), SSPs and SPs of Bihar.
