Confusion on Special intensive amendment (sir) Bihar is being organized by the Election Commission, the BJP is also feeling heat. Allegedly working on adverse reports from the field, Bihar BJP organization secretary Bhikhu Bhai Dallia held a meeting with 26 state officials on Monday, fanning them across the state, meeting voters, removing their apprehensions and helping the party’s supporters with the nomination process.
Sources said that the concern in the party is that it has opposed – which is warning the “mass disenferenching” and questions the “haste of EC” – runs the story on the issue. The opposition has also been ahead of the BJP in increasing the number of Blas of its booth level agents to reach voters.
Over the weekend, BJP National General Secretary BL Santosh was in Bihar, and held top level meetings in Rajgir and Muzaffarpur. Sources said that apart from discussing the preparation of the election, Santosh wanted to know “how people were reacting to the head”.
In Monday’s meeting, sources said, Dalasia asked BJP leaders to ensure that the party’s blass visit the booths as much as possible. From July 19, BJP leaders will also hold assembly constitution-wise meetings to receive their feedback on SIR. These will leave by 31 July, or the first drafts will leave one day before the publication of the electoral role.
A senior BJP leader present at a meeting organized by the BJP, told The Indian Express, “We discussed the concerns of the people, mainly on the early tearing with which the EC sir is going.
Despite pushing the opposition to register more workers in the form of blass, the BJP still has the highest, more than 52,000. The BJP leader said that despite the benefits of this number, the party’s Blass had to cover all 73,000 polling booths so far. “We look self -conscious compared to the opposition.”
The leader said that the EC’s decision to exercise largely months before the assembly elections had surprised the BJP of the state, for this it was unprepared for the blass of what to follow. “This only happens when we focus on the opposition parties being pro-active at the booth level, which we realized that we needed to catch and be equal to work.”
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The BJP leader said that the period after August 1 – when supplementary documents provided for nomination as voters are to be uploaded – will be even more important. His response showed that hardly 30% who have submitted nomination forms so far have done so with the necessary documentary proof, the leader said. “Although the EC has not provided a break -up of the collected and uploaded forms, we have gathered from the field report that 70% -80% people have submitted forms without any of the 11 documents specified by the EC.”
The Election Registration Officer will make a final call on the election roll based on the documents submitted. The leader said, “We want our Blass to join the SIR process till the very end.” “There are two types of blass: BLA -1, which is one in the assembly segment, covers all 243 seats; and BLA -2, which are transplanted per voting booth and who interact with EC booth level officials.
A BJP spokesperson said: “We appreciate the SIR process, but we have concerns. We are collaborating to ensure that all the legitimate voters remain in the list, but there are some possibilities that have migrated to work.
Between 25 June, when the SIR began, by July 2, the EC data shows, the total blass in the parties in the state increased by 13%. Opposition India Block among RJD, Congress and Left had added 17.51% more blas, increasing their total from 56,038 to 65,853. Among them, the Congress almost doubled its BLA presence, leaps from 8,586 to 16,500 – 92.17%.
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The NDA, led by BJP and JD (U), saw a comparatively low growth of 10.86%, with their BLA count from 80,083 to 88,781. The BJP barely added 1.39% more black during this period, going from 51,964 to 52,689, while JD (U) increased its BLA number 24.13%, taking a total of total from 27,931 to 34,669.
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