Overview

• The Congress EAGLE panel alleges more than five lakh duplicate entries remain in Bihar’s final electoral roll despite the Special Intensive Revision.
• The panel criticizes the Election Commission for releasing roughly 90,000 booth files as images instead of a single machine-readable list.
• It says 21.53 lakh voters were added, yet Form 6 is available for only 16.93 lakh, leaving about 4.6 lakh additions unexplained.
• The group cites 67.3 lakh deletions, with over a tenth concentrated in 15 Assembly constituencies, and seeks a detailed booth- and category-wise list of deletions.
• The finalized roll stands at 7.42 crore, a net drop of about 30 lakh from 2024, with polling set for November 6 and 11 and counting on November 14.