Bihar SIR: The anxious, ‘absent’ migrant voters of Gopalganj

Heera Manjhi is a worried man. It cannot be found in the draft election roller of the native Bihar, which was published on August 1st.

Mr. Manjhi recently returned home at the foot of the national capital, where he worked in various strange works in the Gopalganj region of Bihar from Faridabad. The name was left out of the draft list, as it could not give a permanent residence certificate with the numbering form for the special intensive revision (secret) of the election roller.

Although he gave an voter identification card, which shows that he was registered as a voter in 2004, Mr. Manjhi, who was older than 50, said he had not voted for the last five years because he was mostly at work.

Missing documents

According to the secret rules of June 24, voters should give one of the 11 documents such as a permanent residence certificate to prove their identity and addresses, if they are not included in the 2003 voter list where the last Secret is realized. However, on September 9, the ECI directed the Biha Chief Election Officer to add AADHAAR as the twelfth indicator certificate following the Supreme Court’s order the previous day.

Many stand level officers (BLOS) Hindu Initially, ECI’s directives were to accept the numbering forms of numbering only with the necessary documents. Later, they were told to accept the forms and then collect documents.

Mr. Manjhi, a resident of the village of Chaturbagaha, can still be on the last list after sending a request form, but the same cannot be said about hundreds of excluded voters who have migrated to cities such as Delhi, Haydarabad, Haydarabad, face and even Persian Gulf countries. Some of them take close family members such as spouses and children, others migrate for five to six months and return to their villages for the rest of the year.

Immigrants registration at home

Harinder Mahato, who comes from the village of Mangolpuri under the chair of the Baikunthpur Assembly, works as a foreman in the face of Gujarat. Fortunately, he returned home for a family function two months ago, in time to fill the numbering forms given by Blo, he notified his name as “no” or “permanently shifted ,, the most common reasons given on the erased lists were glued out of each cabinet in the region.

Similarly, Dhruv Mahato from Vishunpur village, whose entire family lives and worked in Haydarabad, returned to Bihar just to send his form. Mr. Mahato even talks about Hindi with Haydarabadi accent, but insists that no member of his family is registered as voters in Haydarabad.

The Gopalganj region has the highest number of names deleted from the Draft Election List. Visit the various parliamentary election zones in the region, indicating that ECI’s list of deleted voters has only a few anomalies in terms of voters living in the region and excluding from the list. However, many temporary immigrants can vote, as they are not clear whether they are recorded as voters in existing residence places, which are allowed to vote only in a specific place.

ECI has already announced a nationwide sir, the possible deduction date with January 1, 2026. This may mean that immigrants whose names are erased in their own place will be added as voters in existing residence and workplaces.

FEARS FEARS ARE FALL

In the villages of Gopalganj, the problem is acute when moved to Dalit Tolas, which is the planned castes. Especially not to know high literacy among women allows peasants to look at Blos, a local “master” or school teacher, and they are tangible when filling out any form or sending a necessary document.

When this reporter visited the village of Chaturbagaha, a group of dalit women who were told to quickly send the necessary documents to be removed from the list by Blo were written greatly on the face.

The Dewanti giant was convinced that his name was not on the voter list, and he was worried that it would cause him to lose his ration card. When his name is said to be on the deleted list, a relieved lady Dewanti said that the ration card is critical for him because he is a landless worker who does not have any farm land.

Cabinet level confusion

In one of the directives, the Supreme Court asked the agents at the 1.6 Lakh cabin -level assigned by political parties to help and cleanse the suspicions of voters, as well as Blos.

RamRatan Shahi Ucchatar Madhmik Vidhayaya Vishunpur Booth’s Blo’nin Deepak Chowdhary said voters could not get a permanent residence certificate or that any other 11 documents were asked to receive identity and residence certificates. Regarding the Aadhaar, he said that all forms do not need to surrender with Aadhaar because they have these accompanying documents.

What is added to the turmoil is the reorganization with a new limit per poll with a 1,200 voter limit per ballot box. This means that another set collects them and the necessary documents when distributing a Blos set numbering forms.

For example, in the case of Mr. Manjhi, Chaturbagahaa (right) and chaturbagaha (left) – two sides of the same village – each as the other cabin should register on the other stand.

Married, not migrated

In addition to immigrant voters, women are the most affected group. According to their neighbors and relatives, almost all women listed as “existing” or “not migrated dir actually got married and moved to their homes in the villages, just five to 10 km. Again, it was not clear whether these women were added to the voters lists in their new homes.

Aarti giant from the village of Mangolpuri said that the names of their two daughters came out of the list after the survey from the door to the door, but they did not register for their new homes because their mother -in -law did not help them. Both were married to men in nearby villages, but their names were still in the election rolls of their indigenous villages.

A village resident who does not want to give his name, said that many families think that adding women’s names to voters lists, whether their daughters or mother -in -law, would make them suitable for demanding property rights.

One of the most touching cases is Raj Keshari Devi from Vishunpur Village, which is about 80 years old and deleted from the voter list because it is “no”. Since the period isless, the broken right knee points to the right knee. Still, he can’t vote, his family says.

Published – September 12, 2025 05:35