“ Bhagwan ka shukr hai mera naam reh gaya voter list mein. Aadhaar card se hi kaam ban gaya (Thank god my name is in the final electoral roll. The Aadhaar card was all that I needed),” an elated Mukesh Kumar, a 40-year-old driver who lives in Chitkohra locality in Patna’s Digha Assembly segment, told The Indian Express on Tuesday.

Ahead of the November Assembly elections and after a three-month-long Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state, the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday published its final electoral roll for Bihar containing the names of 7.42 crore electors. According to the EC’s draft roll for Bihar, published on August 1, the state had 7.89 crore electors. Voters who had registered after 2003, when the last intensive revision was held in the state, were require

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