Opposition parties in Bihar on Monday, August 4, 2025, accused the ECI of “deliberately” making it “difficult” for them to compare the electoral rolls issued ahead of the Lok Sabha election in January 2024 with the draft rolls published on August 1. Photo credit: X/ AICC Opposition parties in Bihar on Monday (August 4, 2025) … Read more
The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to commence a yatra in Bihar to draw attention to voter rights | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will set out on the ‘Matdata Adhikar (voters’ rights) Yatra’ … Read more
AIADMK general secretary and former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s assertion that Union Home Minister Amit Shah, while in Chennai last week, did not talk of power sharing in the event of the victory of the newly stitched AIADMK-BJP alliance in the 2026 Assembly election, is not surprising given the State’s contemporary political history. Tamil … Read more
BJP national spokesperson Ajay Alok with JD(U) spokesperson Neeraj Kumar addresses a joint press conference of the NDA spokespersons, at Atal Sabhagar, BJP Headquarters, in Patna on August 3, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Sunday (August 3, 2025) urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take cognisance … Read more
Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. File | Photo Credit: PTI Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday (August 4, 2025) said the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar is a “very big” issue, and the government should agree to a discussion on it and move forward. She asked why the opposition should not … Read more
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: PTI The BJP criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of indulging in politics of religion over her announcement of a Rs 1.1 lakh government grant for community Durga Pujas. BJP’s state general secretary Agnimitra Paul on Saturday (August 2, 2025) alleged that … Read more
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
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
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
A view of the Election Commission of India. The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday (August 1, 2025) published the draft electoral rolls for Bihar, following the completion of the month-long Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls. No compiled list was made available, but voters can check their names … Read more
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
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
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday (July 27, 2025) said 91.69% of electors registered in the 2025 voter list in Bihar had submitted enumeration forms as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, and these voters will be included in the draft list to be published on August 1. … Read more
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
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