ECI News

The Bihar Assembly Election 2025 achieved a historic 67.13% voter turnout, with zero repolls. 

The ECI directed the District Magistrate of Samastipur to conduct an on-site inquiry. Meanwhile, the concerned Assistant Returning Officer (ARO) has been suspended for negligence, and an FIR is being registered in connection with the incident.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Monday said that electoral rolls in states where the second phase of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is being conducted will be frozen tonight.      

Jammu and Kashmir's statehood was revoked on August 5, 2019, when the central government revoked its special status under Article 370 and reorganized the region into two Union Territories, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

Special Intensive Revision: The Special Intensive Revision is a large-scale exercise in which electoral rolls are freshly prepared, requiring every registered voter to submit a new enumeration form.

In a major pre-poll move, the Election Commission has made pre-certification mandatory for all political ads to curb misinformation and ensure fair campaigning ahead of the upcoming assembly elections.

ECI appointed 18 senior officers from Rajasthan as Central Observers for Bihar polls, stressing neutrality, law compliance, voter accessibility, and grievance redressal to ensure free, fair, and transparent elections.

Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi has alleged that a centralized software-based system was used to impersonate genuine voters and remove their names from the electoral rolls.

Amid the ongoing debate over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar, the Supreme Court on Monday warned that if any illegality is found in the methodology adopted by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the entire process will be cancelled.

A bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi was hearing pleas from Bihar’s political leaders seeking an extension of the September 1 deadline to file claims and objections to the draft electoral list published by the ECI.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, on Sunday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of acting like a “cell” of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The claims and objections window for inclusion or deletion of names in Bihar draft electoral rolls, opened on August 1 and will remain active till September 1.

 The window for filing claims and objections will remain open until September 1.

The Election Commission on Sunday addressed the media over allegations of vote theft, responding to opposition charges and clarifying its position on the conduct of polls.

Around 65 lakh names were removed from Bihar’s draft electoral rolls during the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in 2025.

Tejashwi Yadav further alleged that Muzaffarpur’s mayor, BJP leader Nirmala Devi, possesses two different EPIC IDs within the same Vidhan Sabha constituency. The RJD leader also claimed that Muzaffarpur’s mayor's two brothers-in-law each have two EPIC numbers as well.

Bihar’s ECI received 13,970 claims in the voter list revision, disposing 341 so far. Despite opposition allegations, no political party has filed complaints since draft rolls’ August 1 publication.

Union minister Chirag Paswan on Sunday hit out at Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi over his allegation of large-scale manipulation of voter lists and challenged him to "verify" the claim.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday dismissed allegations of large-scale voter fraud levelled by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of attempting to sensationalise the matter by making baseless claims in the media.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday asked RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav to submit his alleged fake voter ID by 5:00 PM on August 16.