Bihar voter list revision is ‘greatest threat’ to democracy, claims Congress

The Congress Working Committee on Wednesday reiterated that the “conspiracy” of the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls conducted by the Election Commission in Bihar is the “greatest threat” to the country’s democracy.

In an appeal to voters in Bihar, the Opposition party alleged that the exercise had been designed to “systematically rob” the right to vote from marginalised communities, adding that this disenfranchisement would lead to “snatching away their rights” to welfare schemes and reservations.

The committee, in another resolution , claimed that the voter roll revision was yet another “dirty trick” from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s “toolkit” to “manipulate electoral rolls and cling on to power”.

The two resolutions were passed during the Congress Working