The Supreme Court is expected to hear on Thursday (July 10), which challenges the Election Commission’s decision to make the ‘special intensive amendment’ of the election role in Bihar ahead of the assembly elections.
This comes amidst criticism from land opposition and confusion in the pole-bound state on EC practice, which means updating voter lists by verifying existing entries and adding months of new voters before elections.
The NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), in his petition on July 4, approached SC, unconstitutional and warning the exercise that it would “separate millions of voters”. This advocate was filed through Prashant Bhushan.
Another petition in the apex court was presented by a member of the Parliament Manoj Jha of the Davatya Janata Dal (RJD). He said that the practice was “deliberately calculated to disintegrate Bihar’s mobile workforce during important electoral periods”.
On Sunday, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanash Kumar stepped into the pole-bound state, saying that the pole panel “invited all recognized political parties to negotiate the matter” and “no one was satisfied with the current situation of the electoral roll for one reason or the other”.
The pole body also clarified that the roll revision was being held as per the order of 24 June, which was announcing the practice and “there is no change in the instructions”.
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