Overview

• India’s Election Commission published Bihar’s final electoral roll at 7.42 crore electors, with about 68.6 lakh deletions and 21.5 lakh additions after the Special Intensive Revision.
• Following court directions, Aadhaar was accepted as an additional document, and officials focused on inclusion by linking roughly 77% of voters to the 2003 rolls using family ties and state records.
• Opposition parties including Congress, RJD and CPI(ML) began rapid field verification, alleging arbitrary deletions affecting poor and backward communities and flagging non–machine-readable lists and unresolved double entries.
• Activist Yogendra Yadav questioned a jump in Form-6 additions, noting 16.93 lakh new forms by September 1 versus 21.53 lakh additions in the final roll, as parties sought a detailed breakdown of restorations and first-time voters.
• BJP leaders defended the exercise as removal of bogus voters and highlighted the EC’s assertion of no objections filed in the prescribed format, a claim the Congress disputes while vowing a CBI probe if it returns to power.