CEC says Bihar’s voter list ‘purified’ after 22 years

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday asserted that the special intensive revision in Bihar "purified" the voters’ list after 22 years, and said many new initiatives were being undertaken for the upcoming assembly polls, which would be replicated across the country in due course.

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Kumar, who was accompanied by Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, addressed a crowded press conference before winding up a two-day tour of the state, where he received feedback from representatives of political parties and discussed poll preparedness with officials, “With the successful completion of SIR, the voters’ list in Bihar has been purified. It is after a gap of 22 years that such a cleansing has taken place. The exercise will now be conducted across the country,” Kumar said.