Fear of crushing defeat in upcoming polls: BJP slams INDIA bloc over Bihar electoral roll revision

The BJP chief additionally claimed that the INDI alliance is in “deep shock” as a result of “fear of defeat” within the upcoming Bihar meeting elections.

“The INDI Alliance is in deep shock due to the fear of their crushing defeat in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections. The leaders of the INDI Alliance aim to discredit the Election Commission, a world-renowned, independent, and impartial institution”

“Actually, they know they are going to lose, so now they want to blame the Election Commission… This is an insult to democracy and the institutions of India…”, Chugh advised ANI.

A day earlier, delegation of INDIA bloc leaders from 11 political events met with the Election Commission of India (ECI) within the nationwide capital to register their opposition to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls presently underway in Bihar, calling it the “worst attack on the basic structure of the Constitution.”

Congress chief Abhishek Manu Singhvi, a part of the delegation that met Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, questioned the timing of the SIR train, noting that it’s being carried out solely months earlier than the upcoming Assembly elections.

“Firstly, the last revision was in 2003. For 22 years, more than four of five Bihar elections have happened. Were all those elections faulty?… Secondly the Special Intensive Revision which was held in 2003, was held one year before the Lok Sabha Elections, two years before the Assembly election. Today you are having in July, a maximum period of one or two months for an electoral revision exercise of the second most largest electoral populated state in India, Bihar…You want to have it in one and a half to two months,” the Congress chief advised reporters after the assembly.

Representatives of the Communist Party of India, CPI (Marxist-Leninist), Samajwadi Party, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), Rashtriya Janata Dal, Congress and different events have been current.

The ECI has claimed that the SIR is simply meant to confirm voters and to determine any ‘ineligible voters’ forward of the Assembly elections that are anticipated to be held later this 12 months in Bihar.

However, a number of political events a part of the Opposition, together with Congress and Bihar’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), have raised objections to the train, claiming that will probably be used to disclaim folks their constitutional rights.

The Bihar Legislative Assembly elections are anticipated to be held later this 12 months, nonetheless no official date has been introduced by the ECI as of but.