The Congress party Sunday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of deliberately removing Dalit and Muslim women voters from electoral rolls in Bihar, particularly in six districts that saw close contests in the 2020 assembly polls.

According to All India Mahila Congress president Alka Lamba, 22.7 lakh women’s names were deleted from the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

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Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Lamba alleged that the removal of voters’ names was a well-planned conspiracy to tilt the balance in favour of the NDA. “In the 2020 Bihar Vidhan Sabha elections, it was a close contest between the Mahagathbandhan and the NDA in these seats. The voters’ names were deleted under a well-planned conspiracy to tilt the bala

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