Roll revision unites Oppn

Amid growing chorus against the Election Commission's (EC) conduct of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar, the Congress Monday said that the Opposition is united against the contentious move ahead of the Assembly elections in the eastern state. Maintaining that such a provision has no legal basis, nor does it find any mention in the rules, the party said the term doesn't even exist in electoral law. With the EC move being termed by many as 'mass-scale rigging and mischief, aimed at disenfranchising the vast number of voters', all eyes are now set on the Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear a batch of petitions challenging the exercise July 10

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Joining nine other parties in challenging the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar before the Supreme Court, the Congress Monday said the entire Opposition is united on the issue and alleged that the exercise is aimed at disenfranchising the vast number of voters with its “mischievous methodology”.

The Opposition party said it has full faith that the apex court will deliver justice, as it claimed that the revision exercise initiated by the Election Commission (EC) just ahead of Assembly elections in Bihar is causing chaos across villages and towns in the state by creating anxiety among crores of voters who fear their right to vote will be stolen.