'Hold Bihar SIR again': Congress accuses EC of rejecting 89 lakh complaints; flags 'irregularities'

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission dismissed around 89 lakh complaints of irregularities flagged by the Congress's Booth Level Agents (BLAs) during the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, Pawan Khera claimed on Sunday.

Alleging that the irregularities cast doubt on the intention of the EC, the chairman of the media and publicity department of the Congress, Khera, demanded that the entire exercise be conducted again.


“The EC keeps getting news planted through its sources that no complaints are coming from any political party. The truth is that the Congress submitted 89 lakh complaints pertaining to irregularities in the SIR to the EC,” Khera said in a press conference in Patna.

“When our BLAs went to file complaints, their complaints were turned down by the EC. The EC categorically told our BLAs that complaints could be accepted by individuals only, not by political parties,” Khera claimed.

After Khera made the claims, Bihar Chief Electoral Officer said that the Congress have sent letters to delete the names of about 89 lakh people from the voter list of Bihar, however, the objections raised were not in the prescribed form.

In a press release, Bihar CEO said, "The District Congress Committee Presidents of the Indian National Congress have written letters to the District Election Officers in the last 1-2 days to delete the names of about 89 lakh people from the voter list of Bihar..."



"However, the objections raised by the Presidents of the District Congress Committee of the Congress Party are not in the prescribed form. The District Election Officer is forwarding these objections to the concerned Electoral Registration Officers for appropriate action," it added
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