SIR in Bihar: JD(U) MP says EC not in touch with ground realities

Booth Level Officers fill and collect forms from electors in Patepur block of Bihar’s Vaishali district recently. File photo | Photo Credit: ANI Janata Dal (United) Member of Parliament from Banka, Giridhari Yadav, on Wednesday (July 23, 2025) expressed reservations over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, stating that the … Read more

Edappadi Palaniswami interview | ‘People of Tamil Nadu expect only single-party rule in 2026’

Amid repeated assertions by BJP strategist and Union Home Minister Amit Shah that his party and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, constituents of the National Democratic Alliance, would form a coalition government in Tamil Nadu after the 2026 Assembly election, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Monday (July 21, 2025) said the … Read more

Aadhaar, voter ID and ration cards can’t be accepted as ‘standalone documents’ for SIR: ECI

Election Commission of India office building in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Election Commission (EC) assured the Supreme Court on Monday (July 21, 2025) that a person will not cease to be a citizen merely on being found ineligible for registration in the electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), currently … Read more

What was the situation during your parent’s regime?…did anyone come outside after dark in Patna? asks Nitish to Tejashwi Yadav

Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, speaks to the media during the Monsoon Session of Bihar Legislative Assembly, in Patna on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI On the third day of the five-day Monsoon Session of the Bihar Assembly, when Rashtriya Janata Dal leader … Read more

Bihar SIR: Election Commission shares list of voters who didn’t submit forms or ‘not found’ with Bihar parties

Booth Level Officers fill and collect forms from electors in Patepur block of Bihar’s Vaishali district on July 10, 2025. Photo: X/@CEOBihar via ANI The Election Commission of India (EC), which has undertaken Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, on Monday (July 21, 2025) said that political parties in the State have … Read more

Narendra Modi’s Bihar visit was an empty bundle: Manoj Kumar Jha

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Rajya Sabha member and party’s national chief spokesperson Manoj Kumar Jha on Friday (July 18, 2025) termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Motihari visit without any vision and emotion. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Rajya Sabha member and party’s national chief spokesperson Manoj Kumar Jha on Friday … Read more

PM Modi Bihar visit: ‘Banayenge naya Bihar, phir ek baar NDA Sarkar,’ says Prime Minister in Motihari rally

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Bihar for fifth time in poll-year on Friday (July 18, 2025) and while, addressing a public meeting at Gandhi Maidan in Motihari of East Champaran district coined a new slogan “Banayenge naya Bihar, phir ek baar NDA Sarkar (will make new Bihar, once again there will be NDA government). He … Read more

Bihar SIR: Only 6.85% of voters yet to submit their enumeration forms

Nawada BLO conducts door-to-door distribution of enumeration forms and collection of filled forms under the Special Intensive Revision-2025 ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI Only 6.85% of voters are yet to submit their enumeration forms in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, the Election … Read more

Bihar electoral roll revision: ECI says information on voters being shared with political parties

District Election Officer and District Magistrate Aman Sameer carries out a house-to-house visit in various panchayats under the Ekma Assembly Constituency to verify the work being done by Booth Level Officers and review the ongoing activities related to the special intensive revision campaign of the voter list, in Saran on July 17, 2025. | Photo … Read more

Special Intensive Revision is a BJP ‘conspiracy’: Prashant Kishor

Jan Suraaj chief Prashant Kishor. File | Photo Credit: PTI Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor waded into the political controversy surrounding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar on Wednesday (July 15, 2025) when he described the mammoth exercise as a “BJP conspiracy”. Mr. Kishor made the remark in Kishanganj, the … Read more

Congress draws parallels between the NRC, and the SIR in Bihar

All India Congress Committee Incharge, NSUI, Kanhaiya Kumar addresses a press conference, at AICC HQ in New Delhi on Tuesday, July 15, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI Taking on the Election Commission of India (ECI) over reports that lakhs of illegal persons from Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar had been traced in the Special Intensive Revision … Read more

Third round of house-to-house visits to collect enumeration forms begins soon for Bihar SIR

Electors are also being encouraged by Booth Level Officers to fill up their forms online (in accordance with para 3(d) of the SIR guidelines), using their mobile phones through the ECINet app, or through the online form on https://voters.eci.gov.in. Photo credit: X/@CEOBihar Booth Level Officers will soon begin their third round of house-to-house visits to … Read more

Congress urges State unit to launch protest against SIR in Bihar 

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi during a meeting. | Photo Credit: ANI The Congress leadership on Monday (July 14, 2025) asked its Bihar unit to launch mass protests against the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in the State before the Assembly elections. The meeting, presided by … Read more

Bihar Special Intensive Revision: SIR being done to terrorise people, must be withdrawn, says Dipankar Bhattacharya

CPI-(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya addressing press in Patna on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Tuesday (July 15, 2025) demanded that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar be withdrawn immediately and that the Assembly elections this year be conducted on … Read more

Not foreigners, Biharis will decide fate of Bihar: BJP

A Booth Level Officer (BLO) checks documents during the Special Investigation Revision to electoral roll Drive in Purnia district in Bihar on July 08, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap The BJP on Sunday (July 13, 2025) slammed the Opposition parties for raising questions on the ongoing scrutiny of electoral rolls in Bihar and … Read more

Bihar SIR: CPI(ML) slams Election Commission claim of foreigners on electoral rolls

General secretary of CPI(ML) Liberation Dipankar Bhattacharya. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Targeting the Election Commission’s (EC) for claiming that a large number of foreigners were found in the voter rolls in Bihar, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), or CPI(ML), general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya has said that such claims are made to “obfuscate the reality … Read more