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Ruckus in House over electoral reforms, SIR, Bihar poll results
The New Indian Express Tirunelveli
|December 10, 2025
THE debate on electoral reforms in the Lok Sabha turned combative on Tuesday, with the Opposition targeting the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the Treasury benches firing back with the BJP’s emphatic victory in the Bihar elections.
Initiating the discussion, Congress MP Manish Tewari said the Election Commission has no legal basis to conduct SIR, and it must be stopped while making a slew of suggestions for election reforms, in-
cluding mandating a 100 per cent counting of VVPAT slips or reverting to paper ballots.
This story is from the December 10, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Tirunelveli.
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