Overview

• At a Sunday press conference in Guwahati, former APCC president Ripun Bora alleged the BJP and ECI colluded to manipulate electoral rolls in Maharashtra and Bihar.
• He claimed nearly 48 lakh fake voters were added in Maharashtra’s 2024 assembly elections and that an intensive four-month revision in Bihar is designed to purge opposition supporters.
• Congress leaders warned that the same tactics—issuing D-voter notices and adding paid BJP supporters—are planned for the run-up to the 2026 Assam Assembly polls.
• Officials highlighted the Election Commission’s reduction of election CCTV footage retention from one year to 45 days and the absence of stakeholder consultations on mass roll revisions.
• The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee has begun training block-level agents to monitor roll revisions and pressed the commission for digital, machine-readable voter lists to ensure transparency.