Overview

• On July 24, opposition MPs led by Sonia Gandhi demonstrated at Parliament’s Makar Dwar to protest the Special Intensive Revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls as a means of voter suppression
• A protest placard misspelled “loktantra” as “loktantar,” prompting BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya to tweet “Loktantra hota hai, loktantar nahi”
• BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla further ridiculed Congress with social media jabs about its inability to “spell nor save democracy”
• Election Commission figures show 7.17 crore voter forms digitized and removal of millions of ineligible entries, covering 98.01% of Bihar’s electorate
• The exercise marks the first comprehensive electoral roll revision in Bihar in 22 years and has become a focal point in the debate over electoral integrity