Overview
- The Election Commission issued revised draft rolls for all 243 assembly seats in Bihar, recording a net reduction of 65 lakh electors and launching a claims and objections window through September 1.
- INDIA bloc MPs have submitted adjournment motions and written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla under Rule 267 to secure a special debate on the SIR exercise.
- Opposition leaders resolved to hold a protest march to the Election Commission’s New Delhi headquarters and to conduct public campaigns in Bihar over the alleged disenfranchisement of vulnerable voters.
- Rahul Gandhi renewed allegations of 'vote theft' by the Election Commission, threatening to release what he called an “atom bomb” of evidence, which the commission dismissed as baseless.
- Union Minister Kiren Rijiju affirmed that the Special Intensive Revision falls within the Election Commission’s constitutional mandate and ruled out any parliamentary discussion of the process.