ECI considers intensive house to house verification to update electoral rolls before Bihar Assembly election

On Sunday, June 22, 2025, the Indian Election Commission (ECI), on Sunday, June 22, allegedly on the claim of manipulation of voter rolls of voter rollers, said that an intensive house was considered for verification of election rolls before the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections.

Sources in ECI, this approach in the past, various non -governmental organizations, political parties and agencies by the names of voters to include or delete the constant concerns about the age, he said.

He has repeatedly marked the concerns of the opposition parties about election rolls. The Congress claimed inconsistencies in the election rolls during the 2024 Mahashtra Assembly elections, and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) raised the issue of reiterating voter identity cards in Western Bengal.

In March, ECI wrote to all political parties and asked them to attend a meeting to strengthen the election process within the legal framework.

A source in ECI said that the updating process of the election rollers was carried out in accordance with the rules and instructions of the ECI of the updating rolls and the political parties were provided to appeal and appeal before the last election roll was published.

“However, although it follows a detailed protocol, the exercise is carried out frequently against ECI for the arbitrary swelling of the election roll, although the exercise is carried out with full transparency and under the constant examination of political parties,” he said.

The ECI was thinking about a busy house to host the verification process for the revision of election rolls before the Bihar Assembly elections to save the system from the errors. The authority added that such an exercise was performed in 2004.

The need for continuously updating election rolls occurs for various reasons, including the migration or shift of voters; Deletion of the names of dead voters; Adding the names of young voters who reach the age of 18; Corrections in voter details, including names, photos and addresses; Rationalization of voting stations; And the identification of the names of foreign illegal immigrants and then erasing.