It is fundamental that unless a person is a citizen of India he cannot be an elector. Consequently, he cannot become a legislator also. Therefore, it is very surprising that some seasoned politicians have raised objections to the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar (where Assembly elections are … Read more
File photo of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. | Photo Credit: ANI Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday (July 26, 2025) announced an increase in the pension of retired journalists under the ‘Bihar Patrakar Samman’ scheme by ₹9,000 per month. Now, all eligible retired journalists, registered with the Bihar government, will receive ₹15,000 per month … Read more
A Booth Level Officer (BLO) checks documents during Special Investigation Revision to electoral roll Drive at Kamalpur Village under Jalalgarh Block in Purnia district in Bihar. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Petitioner-NGO Association for Democratic Reforms on Saturday (July 26, 2025) countered the Election Commission of India’s (EC) refusal to accept Aadhaar, Voter ID, … Read more
BLOs fill and collect the counting forms from the electors in Patepur block of Vaishali, Bihar. | Photo Credit: ANI Around 68% of the migrant workers from Bihar working in different parts of the country do not have the correct information on the documents required for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls … Read more
Married women born between July 1, 1987 to December 2, 2004 and born after December 2, 2004 are at the receiving end in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) as they need to provide the documents related to the maternal house (Maika) instead of in-laws (Sasural). On the last day of form submission many women … Read more
Patna/Bihar: RJD leaders Tejashwi Yadav and Rabri Devi. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu On the last day of the monsoon session of Bihar legislature, former chief minister and Rashtriya Janada Dal leader Rabri Devi on Friday (July 25, 2025) accused Chief M\inister Nitish Kumar to get provoked seeing black clothes “like a bull upon … Read more
District officials meet the public in Bihar’s Purnia on July 23, 2025 to urge eligible voters to submit their enumeration forms. Photo: X/@dmpurnea Around 15 lakh Bihar voters are yet to submit their enumeration forms with just two days to go for the July 25, 2025 deadline as part of the Special Intensive Revision of … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav. | Photo Credit: ANI Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday (July 20, 2025) shared letters he had written to 35 leaders seeking their support in the fight against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in … Read more
A Booth Level Officer checks documents during Special Investigation Revision to the electoral roll Drive at Kamalpur Village under Jalalgarh Block in Purnia district in Bihar. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu More than 27.4% Dalit voters in Bihar have “no trust” in the Election Commission of India (ECI), a new survey released ahead of … Read more
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
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
Earlier, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made the announcement to give free power up to 125 units and the decision will come into effect from August 1, 2025. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Bihar Cabinet on Friday (July 18, 2025) gave its nod to provide up to 125 units of free electricity to 1.67 … Read more
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday (July 17, 2025) said the doubts that the Opposition INDIA bloc had about the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) in Bihar were proving to be right. The remarks by the Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Assembly came a day after the Election Commission (EC) … Read more
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
BLOs fill and collect the counting forms from the electors in the Patepur block of Vaishali, Bihar. File. Photo: X/@CEO Bihar via ANI The Election Commission (EC) has so far found that over 5.76 lakh electors in Bihar are enrolled at multiple places, and over 12.55 lakh have probably died. As the Special Intensive Revision … Read more
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
A poster of Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seen in Purnia, Bihar on July 09, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit poll-bound Bihar again on July 18 to address a public meeting and unveil projects worth over ₹7,000 crores … Read more
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
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
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 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
The Election Commission of India (EC) on Monday (July 14, 2025) said that out of the 7.89 crore electors in Bihar, enumeration forms of 6.6 crore or 83.66% have been collected till date as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP The Election Commission … Read more
At around noon on July 11, businessman Arvind Kumar Jha, 55, was sitting at his two-wheeler accessories shop at the exhibition road in Patna, when he got a call from his home assistant Deepak Kumar, 22, saying the kudawala (municipal sweeper) had given him the electoral enumeration roll form to fill-up. When Mr. Jha came … Read more
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
Intense drive: A Booth Level Officer checks documents during SIR at Jogbani in Bihar on July 8. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday (July 12, 2025) said that it has distributed Enumeration Forms for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Voter Rolls in Bihar to almost all electors … Read more