SIR did little, other than thwart NDA’s ‘nefarious exclusionary design’, says Bihar Opposition

AS THE Election Commission Tuesday published the final electoral rolls for Bihar, following a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive, Opposition parties RJD and Congress said the NDA government at the Centre had failed “in its nefarious bid of mass exclusion of electors”.

Thanking the Supreme Court for directing the EC to allow Aadhaar card apart from the 11 documents mandated by it for enrolment in the SIR, the Mahagathbandhan allies also attributed this to the Voter Adhikar Yatra of Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav.

Their yatra from August 17 to September 1, across 23 of 38 Bihar districts, the parties said, had “put the EC and Centre under pressure to not attempt any further deletions, using the excuse that electors were not able to submit the required documents”.

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