In the run up to the declaration of results for the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections , the political temperature in the state spiked sharply following a series of fresh allegations of electoral irregularities raised by the Opposition.

The RJD and CPI(ML) Liberation have accused election authorities of engineered power cuts and CCTV blackouts to suspicious vehicle movements near strong rooms and careless handling of VVPAT slips. These real-time claims have revived older and more structural concerns about Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Bihar, have called these allegations "baseless", "misleading" and "factually incorrect", but the questions surrounding transparency and trust remain.

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