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
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. File | Photo Credit: ANI Ahead of the State Assembly election, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday (July 13, 2025) promised to provide jobs and employment opportunities to one crore youth in five years (2025-2030). Making the announcement on social media platform X, he claimed that between 2005 and … Read more
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
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
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav holds the INDIA bloc meeting at his official residence in Patna on July 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Ahead of the Bihar Assembly election, the INDIA bloc held its latest meeting in Patna on Saturday (July 12, 2025) at the official residence of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and … Read more
The Bharatiya Janata Party is trying to hijack the electoral process in the upcoming Bihar Assembly election like it did in Maharashtra, alleged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, while addressing a public rally in Bhubaneswar on Friday (July 11, 2025). He further said the Election Commission of India (ECI) acted like a “wing of the saffron … Read more
A view of voter awareness e-rickshaws ahead of the 2025 Bihar legislative Assembly Elections, in Patna. File | Photo Credit: ANI Bihar’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Vinod Singh Gunjiyal on Saturday (July 12, 2025) appealed to voters of all urban Assembly constituencies in the State to actively participate in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) … Read more
The Supreme Court on Thursday (July 10, 2025) asked the Election Commission of India (ECI), in the interest of justice, to consider Aadhaar card, Elector’s Photo Identity Card (EPIC), and ration card as proof for voter registration in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar. Also read: Bihar voter list … Read more
It is not yet noon, but the tracks at the Jogbani railway station are shimmering in the heat. Jogbani in Bihar’s Araria district is the last station on the Indian side. The Indo-Nepal border is just a few metres away. Across the railway line, in the cram-jam of run-down semi-urbanisation, the stench from the black … Read more
The Supreme Court’s order on Bihar’s electoral rolls sparks a war of words between BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia and Congress communication chief Jairam Ramesh. File | Photo Credit: PTI/ANI A war of words ensued between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress on Friday (July 11, 2025) following the Supreme Court’s order on … Read more
As controversy rages over the few documents considered valid for voter registration during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, a key figure that has emerged is that of the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO). The discretionary powers being given to these officials of the State government could taint the SIR process, warn … Read more
Many petitions challenging the SIR in Bihar have been filed in the Supreme Court. File | Photo Credit: ANI A Supreme Court Bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi is scheduled on July 10 to hear arguments for and against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll under way in poll-bound Bihar … Read more
Congress general secretary (organisation), K.C. Venugopal pointed out that the apex court will hear the case again later this month, while expressing hope that the EC will go with the court’s suggestion. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA The Congress on Thursday (July 10, 2025) said the Supreme Court’s suggestion that the Election Commission (EC) … Read more
The story so far: On July 10, the Supreme Court directed the Election Commission (EC) to consider Aadhaar cards, voter ID cards, and ration cards as acceptable documents for the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. It has listed the batch of petitions challenging the EC’s decision for further hearing on July … Read more
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is flanked by Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu (left) and Vivek Joshi. Photo: X@ECISVEEP via PTI The Election Commission of India (ECI) ordered a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar, which will be facing Assembly elections in November. Political parties in the Opposition have alleged that … Read more
In recent years, India has experienced a subtle, yet significant, shift in how citizenship and national belonging are defined, and, increasingly, how voting rights are determined. This transformation is most evident in the ongoing electoral roll revision by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Bihar, just months before the State Assembly elections later this … Read more
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with CPI (ML) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya and others addresses supporters during a protest amid ‘Bihar bandh’ called by the INDIA bloc against Special Intensive Revision in the state, in Patna, on July 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accompanied by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader … Read more