‘Won’t remove voters without notice’; EC says on Bihar SIR

The Election Commission said that under the SIR process, every effort is being made to include the names of all eligible voters in the final list. The Election Commission has given strict guidelines that the name of any voter should not be removed from the list wrongly.

New Delhi: The Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Bihar is constantly in controversy. The opposition is raising questions that under this process, the Election Commission is removing many voters from the list. At the same time, now the Election Commission has responded to this in the Supreme Court.

The EC said the Apex Court that no voter in Bihar has been deprived of his rights. No voter will be removed from the voter list without notice.

What did the Election Commission say?

The Election Commission said that under the SIR process, every effort is being made to include the names of all eligible voters in the final list. The EC has given strict guidelines that the name of any voter should not be removed from the list wrongly.

Accusation of deletion of 65 lakh names

The Election Commission filed an affidavit in the SC on Saturday saying that no negligence will be done in inclusion and deletion of names during any SIR process. This statement of the Election Commission has come at a time when the Commission has been accused of removing the names of 65 lakh people from the voter list.

According to the Election Commission

All voters are being given ample opportunities to submit documents. Officials are going to the booth level and motivating political parties to participate and run awareness campaigns among the people. For this, 38 District Election Officers, 243 Election Registration Officers, 2,976 Assistant Election Registration Officers, 77,895 Booth Level Officers, 2,45,716 volunteers and 1,60,813 Booth Level Agents have been appointed.

7.24 crore people submitted documents

The Election Commission says that out of 7.89 crore voters in the draft list released on August 1, only 7.24 crore people have submitted their documents. The names of the voters whose documents have not been received are being given to all political parties from time to time. 246 advertisements have also been given in newspapers for voters living outside Bihar.