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Bihar Election 2025: ECI’s SIR Exercise Triggers Voter Exclusion Fears

BIHAR, INDIA, JUL 5 – The Election Commission requires 2.93 crore voters to submit documents amid concerns of disenfranchisement and legal challenges ahead of Bihar's 2025 Assembly polls.

  • On June 24, the Election Commission of India announced a Special Intensive Revision of Bihar's electoral rolls, four months before the Assembly elections.
  • The announcement of Bihar's SIR was driven by concerns over illegal immigrants, migration, and the need to update voter rolls, prompting the exercise.
  • Rahul Shastri estimates 4.96 crore Bihar voters from 2003 must submit forms, with 2.93 crore needing documents and 1.76 crore having migrated since then.
  • Opposition parties and civil rights groups challenge the voter list revision, citing risks of disenfranchisement and constitutional breaches, leading to legal petitions and protests.
  • By July 25, voters must submit forms or fill applications without documents; final electoral rolls will be published by September 30 amid ongoing uncertainties.
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The Election Commission's clarification came after confusion spread on social media over an advertisement published in a newspaper which said that 'now only form has to be filled, no need to submit documents'. On this, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge posted on X and alleged that this entire process is a conspiracy of the BJP-RSS to snatch the voting rights of Dalits and the underprivileged.

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The Hindu broke the news in India on Saturday, July 5, 2025.
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