Election Commission of India

The Supreme Court allowed the ECI to continue the SIR in Bihar, but asked to consider Aadhaar, voter ID cards, and ration cards as valid documents during the verification drive.

The Supreme Court on Friday questioned the timing of the Election Commission's special revision of the Bihar voter list ahead of elections. It asked why the process wasn’t done earlier and whether voter ID and Aadhaar are being wrongly rejected.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary has said that on average, 26 thousand to 28 thousand applications were coming to Kishanganj for a residence certificate every month from January to May in 2025. He said that as soon as the process of the Election Commission started, this number increased rapidly.

The ECI has dismissed RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's allegations of irregularities in Bihar's voter list revision as baseless.

As opposition parties continue to raise concerns over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), which is to be carried out in Bihar, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said it is a general practice to update the voter list before every election as a part of the law.

RJD's Tejaswi Yadav said that this is a conspiracy to snatch the votes of the poor. AIMIM's Owaisi called it 'backdoor NRC' because documents are needed for this. TMC's Sagarika Ghosh and journalist Ravish Kumar are also calling it suspicious.

Sources within the Election Commission of India (ECI) have clarified that the Indian National Congress' (INC) ongoing demand for machine-readable, digital copies of electoral rolls is "not legally tenable" and has already been conclusively settled by the Supreme Court.

The bye-polls to five Assembly Constituencies held by the Election Commission of India today witnessed successful implementation of several major new initiatives launched by the ECI in the past four months

Citing the example of the Maharashtra elections, Rahul Gandhi claimed that there was an addition of 65 lakh voters to the turnout lin two hours, which is impossible.

The Election Commission pointed out that the disgraced cop Ranjeet Kasale was not part of any election duty in the 2024 Maharashtra polls and was instead posted at the Beed Cyber Police Station.