SIR row: Opposition making noise because 'they have something to hide', says Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya connected Monday (November 24, 2025) targeted Opposition parties, alleging that those creating a furore implicit Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise "have thing to hide".

Mr. Maurya, who served arsenic co-in-charge for the BJP successful the caller Bihar Assembly elections, said successful a station connected his authoritative X (formerly Twitter) handle, "The parties making sound implicit the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of elector lists person 'something to hide'. Bihar has proved that their presumption is weak." The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance swept the Bihar Assembly polls with a two-thirds majority, pushing the INDIA bloc to the margins.

Opposition leaders, including Congress person Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, person been accusing the authorities and the Election Commission of manipulating the SIR process.

On Saturday (November 22, 2025), Mr. Yadav alleged astatine a property league that the BJP authorities and the Election Commission were conspiring to delete much than 50,000 names from elector lists successful those Assembly segments wherever the Samajwadi Party and the INDIA bloc had won during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

The erstwhile Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said, "We expect the Election Commission to stay impartial and code our complaints. But it is being said that aft losing successful 2024 [Lok Sabha elections], the BJP and the Election Commission are focussing the astir connected West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh." The Election Commission has denied the allegations levelled by Opposition parties.