The main election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, claimed that citizens should register as voters only in constituencies of which are common residents and not the place where the house owns. Photo Credit: PIB
The Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar (1 July 2025) claimed that citizens should register as voters only in electoral districts of which are common inhabitants and not the place where the house owns.
His remarks come when the reconnaissance machines in Bihar perform a special intensive overview (Sir) of the list of voters of the state that is going to the poll at the end of this year.
One of the key targets of the drive is to identify “many people” who have consciously or unconsciously managed to maintain more voter cards of different constituencies.
CEC, who addressed a group of officers at the stand level, said: “Under the law on people, you have the right to vote only in an election district where you are an ordinary resident. Many people are the ordinary inhabitants of one place and this place has received their voter card and at the same time retain their earlier card before migration, which, as officials emphasized, is a crime.
The opposition parties claimed that exercise could deprive real voters of their right and benefit the ruling expenditure in Bihar.
The election roles were re-prepared through various intensive revisions, either throughout the country or in parts, nine times in the period of 52 years from 1952 to 2004-an average of almost every six years.
This time, however, the exercise takes place after 22 years.
This year, the Election Commission will conduct an intensive review of election roles in six countries, starting with Bihar to eliminate “foreign illegal migrants” by controlling their place of birth.
Bihar goes into public opinion surveys at the end of this year, while the elections to Assam, Kerala, Puduchherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are scheduled in 2026.
This step, which would later be extended to other countries, assumes importance as a result of intervention in different countries about “illegal foreign migrants”, namely Iz Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The election commission officials stated that although the survey of the survey dealt with the question of duplicate voters – the same card numbers incorrectly issued to two different persons – the question of many people who are enrolled in different places, by providing various unrivaled data obtained by more than one election identification card.
Published – 1 July 2025 05:37
