Overview

• Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram posed six questions to the ECI, citing alleged discrepancies in Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision such as duplicate entries, invalid addresses, and nonsensical names.
• The final Bihar roll published on September 30 lists about 7.42 crore electors after the ECI reported roughly 47 lakh exclusions from pre-SIR lists.
• The Congress said the state’s rolls are about 30 lakh lower than the 7.72 crore registered for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and asked the ECI to explain who was dropped.
• Chidambaram referenced figures cited by Congress analysts, including around 5.2 lakh suspected duplicates, over 2 lakh blank or invalid house numbers, and roughly 24,000 gibberish entries.
• The ECI says the SIR followed constitutional and statutory procedures, notes appeal routes under Section 24 of the RP Act, and states that 3.66 lakh names were removed after scrutiny as ineligible.