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Election Commission Launches Special Intensive Revision of Bihar Voter Rolls

House-to-house enumeration with fresh documentation requirements will verify every eligible voter before updated lists go live on September 30.

Owaisi said new rules ask people to prove their own and their parents' birth details through documents, which many poor citizens, especially in flood-hit Seemanchal, do not have.
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Akhilesh Yadav said that if Mamata Banerjee was saying something about the BJP, then the opposition parties have to be alert.

Overview

  • The ECI has begun distributing enumeration forms to all 7.9 crore electors in Bihar under a constitutionally backed special intensive revision set to end with final rolls on September 30.
  • About 2.93 crore voters added since January 1, 2003 must submit proof of date and place of birth plus parental documentation according to age-based categories to confirm citizenship.
  • Booth Level Officers will make at least three home visits per household and electors can also submit forms online, with a July 26 deadline for submissions and an August 1–September 1 window to challenge deletions.
  • Opposition parties, including the Trinamool Congress and Congress, have condemned the drive as a backdoor National Register of Citizens exercise that risks disenfranchising marginalised and migrant communities.
  • The ECI says the intensive revision responds to rapid migration, urbanisation and duplications in the rolls and will inform similar nationwide updates ahead of upcoming assembly elections.