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Tejashwi Yadav Alleges BJP-EC Nexus in Bihar Voter List Manipulation

Tejashwi Yadav claims the Election Commission enabled BJP leaders to hold multiple voter IDs, alleging vote theft and threatening to boycott Bihar elections if irregularities persist.

  • On August 13, Tejashwi Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal alleged that the Election Commission and the BJP are working together to tamper with Bihar's voter rolls ahead of the upcoming assembly elections.
  • He based his allegations on irregularities found after the Special Intensive Revision, including multiple voter ID cards held by BJP leaders like Muzaffarpur Mayor Nirmala Devi.
  • Yadav charged the poll panel with issuing two Electors Photo Identity Cards to BJP voters to distort election results and criticized the EC for avoiding public discussion of these issues.
  • He stated, “This is all a game of vote theft,” recalled losing by 12,000 votes in 2020, and censured the EC for not hosting a press conference on the matter.
  • Yadav announced that starting August 17, he plans to participate in the Vote Rights Yatra alongside Rahul Gandhi and indicated he might boycott the elections if the Election Commission continues to manipulate the results in favor of the BJP.
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Devdiscourse broke the news in India on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.
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