New Delhi: The Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Monday did not provide the number of illegal migrants whose names were deleted from the electoral rolls of Bihar prepared after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), saying that it is maintained in a decentralised way and available at Assembly, district and state level.

At a press conference to announce the schedule for Bihar Assembly elections, three journalists had sought the statistics but Kumar did not respond to it directly.

On August 17 too, Kumar at a press conference did not provide the number of foreigners or illegal immigrants whose names were found in the voters’ list in Bihar but said those identified as foreigners during the SIR will be probed by September 30.

Quoting EC sources, DH and other media organisations ha

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