Jun 22, 2025 05:07 PM IST
A number of events, together with Congress, accuse the EC of favouring BJP by manipulating voter rolls, as allegations of information tampering proceed to floor.
The Election Fee of India (ECI) is prone to conduct an intensive house-to-house verification through the upcoming revision of electoral rolls for the Bihar meeting elections scheduled later this yr, PTI reported, citing sources.
Allegations of voter listing manipulation proceed to shadow the Election Fee, with a number of political events, together with the Congress, accusing it of favouring the BJP by tampering with electoral roll information, the report added.Â
Considerations over the inclusion and deletion of names have additionally been persistently raised by civil society teams and different stakeholders.
Quoting officers, the report stated they lamented that regardless of following an in depth protocol, the Election Fee usually faces allegations of arbitrarily inflating the electoral roll, regardless that the method is carried out with full transparency and fixed oversight by political events.
To strengthen the system and remove potential errors, the Election Fee is contemplating an intensive house-to-house verification as a part of the upcoming electoral roll revision forward of the Bihar meeting polls, sources instructed PTI.Â
Officers identified that comparable large-scale verification workout routines have been performed prior to now, with the final such drive happening in 2004.
