Senior Bihar Congress leader Ashok Kumar joins JD(U)

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Ashok Kumar joins JD(U) in the presence of party leaders, including Sanjay Jha. Videograb: X/@Jduonline In Bihar, where State Assembly elections are just months away, senior State Congress Party leader Ashok Kumar (Ram) on Sunday (August 3, 2025) joined the ruling party Janata Dal (United), alleging that the party has no “respect for Dalit”. Mr. … Read more

ECI asks Tejashwi Yadav to hand over his EPIC card after his name was found on the draft poll roll under a different number

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The Election Commission of India has written a letter to RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav to provide details of EPIC number, a day after he raked up controversy that his name is missing from the draft electoral rolls published on August 1, 2025. The Election Commission of India (ECI) wrote to Tejashwi Yadav, Leader of Opposition … Read more

Bihar SIR: Draft poll roll is out, voters dip by 65 lakh

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The number of voters in Bihar has dropped by 65 lakh, according to Bihar’s draft electoral roll, which was published by the Election Commission on Friday after the completion of the first phase of its Special Intensive Revision exercise. More than 7.24 crore electors in the State filled up enumeration forms and have been included … Read more

Nitish government doubles honorariums of cooks, watchmen, health instructors at Bihar schools

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File photo of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. | Photo Credit: ANI The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar on Friday (August 1, 2025) doubled the honorarium for cooks, night watchmen, and physical education and health instructors working in government schools. The announcement was made with months left for the Assembly elections in the State. “Cooks, … Read more

Mass inclusion, and not exclusion, should be the goal of the Bihar SIR, says Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court on Monday (July 28, 2025) pushed harder for the Election Commission of India (ECI) to accept Aadhaar and the Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC) as identity documents in the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR), saying “mass inclusion” and not “en masse exclusion” should be the outcome of the exercise in the poll-bound … Read more

Bihar rumblings: On political parties and the Bihar poll

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Parties and alliances, and variegated caste and interest groups, are repositioning themselves to optimise their strengths in Bihar before the Assembly election which is due later this year. After the BJP’s victory in Haryana for a third time in a row and the NDA recouping its losses in the 2024 general election to return to … Read more

Clearing the air on ‘citizenship’ in Bihar poll roll revision

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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

Bihar Assembly polls: Nitish government hikes monthly pension of retired journalists by ₹9,000 to ₹15,000

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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

Any of the 11 documents accepted for SIR verification are susceptible to falsification: petitioner counters EC in Supreme Court

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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

Bihar SIR: survey of 338 migrant workers finds that over one-third of them do not have documents sought by EC

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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 facing the heat of SIR in Bihar

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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

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

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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’

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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