Bihar roll revision: Congress claims women voters excluded in seats that saw close contest in 2020

The Congress on Sunday claimed that a bulk of the 23 lakh women voters, excluded from Bihar’s final electoral roll published by the Election Commission on September 30, were in 60 Assembly constituencies that saw a close contest in the 2020 elections.

“Looking at the data from the 2020 Assembly elections, the INDIA bloc had won 25 seats here, while the National Democratic Alliance bagged 34 and a close contest was witnessed,” said Alka Lamba, president of the All India Mahila Congress.

The six districts where the 60 seats fall are Gopalganj, Saran, Begusarai, Samastipur, Bhojpur and Purnea.

Lamba alleged that the Election Commission had “engaged in massive fraud on these very seats” in the name of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls.

The revision of the electoral rolls in Bihar was announced by the Election Commission on June 24.

As part of the exercise, persons whose names were not on the 2003 voter list needed to submit proof of eligibility to vote.

The draft rolls were published on August 1 and kept open for “claims and objections” by individuals and political parties until September 1.

As many as 7.2 crore electors were listed in the draft rolls, while 65.6 lakh names were removed from it.

Of these, 22 lakh were due to deaths, 36 lakh were of persons who had permanently...

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