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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) person and the INDIA bloc’s main ministerial look Tejashwi Yadav connected Monday (November 10, 2025) criticised the Election Commission of India (ECI) for “not disclosing gender-wise data” of electors adjacent 4 days aft they had formed their votes successful the archetypal signifier of the Bihar Assembly election.
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“The ECI has not yet provided the information to the radical of Bihar adjacent 4 days aft the archetypal signifier of elections, nor has the percent of antheral and pistillate voters been dislcosed,” Mr. Yadav said.
“Why are the figures being hidden successful the epoch of technology? Previously, each accusation was disposable manually wrong 24 hours, but successful this property of technology, radical privation to cognize wherefore the Election Commission is not providing the information, and this raises suspicion,” helium said.
The ECI had maligned its sanction connected the issue, helium said, and wondered wherever the canvass assemblage stood.
“The ECI has go a laughing banal and ideology is being mocked. Even overseas media is laughing astatine the EC,” the Leader of the Opposition successful the Bihar Assembly said.
Alleging that, successful galore places, the CCTV cameras astatine the counting centres were being turned disconnected for immoderate clip successful the night, Mr. Yadav said the ECI should explicate wherefore this was happening.
Earlier, helium had raised the contented of a ample fig of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail(VVPATs) slips that had been recovered successful Sarairanjan successful Samastipur.
The RJD person besides claimed that 208 companies of constabulary from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled States had been engaged successful predetermination work, and 68% of the observers successful the 243 Assembly constituencies were besides from BJP-ruled States.
“Police forces utilized to enactment successful elections antecedently but they were Central information forces. This is the archetypal clip that constabulary forces from BJP-ruled States person been brought. However, constabulary forces from neighbouring States similar West Bengal and Jharkhand were not called, nor were constabulary forces from Opposition-ruled States similar Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Tripura, and Punjab called. What is the reason?” Mr. Yadav asked.
Mr. Yadav, who held 171 nationalist meetings implicit the people of his campaign, said the radical of Bihar had voted for alteration and translation successful the archetypal phase.
“The uneasiness among the BJP and JD-U (Janata Dal-United) leaders aft the archetypal signifier of voting intelligibly shows that the radical of Bihar privation to get escaped of antagonistic politicians, and a dilapidated and incompetent government,” Mr. Yadav said.
Accompanied by his elder sister and Lok Sabha MP Misa Bharti, and Rajya Sabha MPs Sanjay Yadav and Manoj Jha, Mr. Tejashwi Yadav said that the radical of Bihar were going to make history, and wanted to bring successful “a authorities that provided jobs and pens” arsenic the radical of Bihar appreciated improvement and affirmative thinking.
‘80% CAPF’
Responding to Mr. Yadav’s remarks, an ECI authoritative said the wide male/female sex ratio in voter turnout was mostly provided astatine the clip of the final turnout.
Nearly 80% of the constabulary were deployed from the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), and lone astir 20% of the constabulary had been deployed from the State Armed Police, drawn proportionately from antithetic States based connected availability.
The ECI said constabulary forces had been taken from 24 antithetic States, including Jharkhand, Telangana, Kerala, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Karnataka. Observers had been deployed proportionately from each States, irrespective of which enactment was successful the government.
CCTVs cameras had been functioning astatine each beardown rooms, and if immoderate malfunctioning came to light, it was promptly rectified, the authoritative said.
“The RJD is blaming the Election Commission and the Prime Minister retired of fearfulness of losing the election,” Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and BJP person Samrat Choudhary said.
