The Congress’ Central Election Committee (CEC) will meet on Wednesday to finalise candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections.

The high-level meeting, chaired by party president Mallikarjun Kharge, will be held virtually. Rahul, who is currently on a visit to South American countries, will join the deliberations online. Other CEC members such as Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, KC Venugopal, Amee Yajnik, Uttam Kumar Reddy and TS Singh Deo will also attend it.

The Congress on Tuesday also accused the Election Commission (EC) of failing to ensure transparency in the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar.

With the Supreme Court resuming hearings on the SIR exercise, Congress communications in-charge Jairam Ramesh said the poll body had failed to disclose how many

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