EC to upload 2003 Bihar voter list for special revision drive

The Election Commission will soon upload the 2003 Bihar electoral roll on its website to facilitate the nearly 4.96 crore voters whose names figure on it extract the relevant portion to be attached with the enumeration form for the special intensive revision of the voters’ list.

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

As Opposition parties questioned the revision exercise, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar told PTI Sunday that the purpose is to ensure that no eligible citizen is left out of the electoral rolls and no ineligible person is a part of it. Several Opposition parties have said that the intensive revision carries the risk of willful exclusion of voters using the state machinery.

A senior functionary asserted that anyone opposing the exercise is also opposing Article 326 and should therefore clarify their stand.

Article 326 says that all eligible citizens should be included in the electoral rolls, and those not eligible or not citizens of India cannot be part of the voters' list.