Bihar Election 2025: Yogendra Yadav and Rahul Shastri, in their opinion piece for The Indian Express, have openly stated that Bihar’s final voter list under SIR is “hardly a cause of celebration”, suggesting that there’s more to worry about than taking a sigh of relief over the final figures.

‘As many as 80 lakh potential voters missing’

Yadav and Shastri argue that the true test of a voter list’s quality lies in how complete it is, meaning how many eligible adults are actually registered to vote. They recalled in their piece that after the draft voter list for Bihar was published, they had earlier pointed out (in their column “The Missing Voters,” The Indian Express, July 31) that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) led to a worrying drop in the number of adults included from 97%

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