Electoral Rolls

Kapil Sibal claimed that government has to prove that a person is illegal is immigrant, and the person does not have to proof citizenship, a wrong claim

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 Wednesday agreed to hear two more pleas challenging the Election Commission of India's move to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.

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 TMC's campaign on the alleged "ghost voters" from Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat has already drawn flak from the BJP.

The Ram Nath Kovind-led panel on 'One Nation One Election' has recommended a single electoral roll and electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) for use in elections to all three tiers of the government.

Tewari on Wednesday stated that the party had not made public the electoral roll and was just claiming that there would be free and fair elections to elect the party president.