35 lakh names will be ‘missing’ from Bihar’s voter list, political storm will bring a new update of Election Commission!

Bihar Voter List Update 2025: The process of submitting voter counting form (EF) has reached the final stage under the ongoing special brief revision (SIR) campaign in Bihar. Now only 11 days are left in the last date. Meanwhile, after two rounds of investigation by the BLO, out of the total 7,89,69,844 voters of the state, 6,60,67,208 or 83.66% of the voters have been collected from EFs.

According to the state election office, 1.59% of the voters have been found dead in the investigation so far, while 2.2% of the voters have permanently shifted to another place. Apart from this, 0.73% of the voters have been found, whose name was recorded in more than one place. In this way, total 4.52% names are in a position to be removed from the voter list.

88.18% of voters’ status cleaned

According to the current situation, the status of a total of 88.18% of the voters has become clear either they have submitted their forms or their names remain in one place or they have been permanently transferred. Now only 11.82% of the voters are such that the filled EF forms are yet to be submitted. Of these, a large number of voters have expressed their desire to submit the form with documents in the coming days. The Election Commission has appealed to the remaining voters to submit the EF form with their documents within the stipulated time so that their information can be updated and the voter list can be made more transparent and erroneous.

Tejashwi Yadav targeted

The opposition has strongly criticized this process of SIR. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has warned that if only 1% of the voters are removed from each assembly constituency, on an average, about 3,200 voters can be removed on each seat.
Now that this figure has exceeded 5%, the opposition fears that it may have a direct impact on the election results.

Case under Supreme Court supervision

The case related to the SIR process is currently under the supervision of the Supreme Court. In the last hearing, the court had directed the Election Commission to ensure the identity of the voter on the basis of valid documents like Aadhaar card, ration card and voter ID card. The next hearing of the case is scheduled on 28 July.