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Opposition Protests Stall Bihar Assembly and Parliament Over Voter Roll Revision

They have repeatedly adjourned sessions to demand a formal debate on alleged mass voter deletions ahead of the October assembly elections.

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Overview

  • Bihar’s monsoon session and both houses of Parliament were adjourned multiple times as legislators in black staged walkouts and well protests over the Special Intensive Revision.
  • Opposition parties accuse the Election Commission of using the SIR to wrongfully delete millions of names and call for accountability from the poll body and prime minister.
  • In Parliament, INDIA bloc MPs moved a dozen adjournment motions under Rule 267 to force a debate on the SIR, all of which were rejected by the Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker and Rajya Sabha Chair.
  • The Election Commission told the Supreme Court it collected enumeration forms from 7.11 crore out of 7.89 crore voters, marking 94.68 percent coverage of the revision exercise.
  • INDIA bloc leaders held in-session strategy meetings and Tejashwi Yadav wrote to 35 opposition figures nationwide as part of a coordinated campaign against the Bihar SIR.