Instead of making flimsy, moot arguments: Congress’ Khera hits back EC over no appeal claims

New Delhi: Congress on Friday hit back at the Election Commission over the claims made by Bihar’s Chief Election Officer (CEO) that no appeals have been received regarding additions or deletions in the electoral rolls saying that instead of making flimsy and moot arguments about not receiving objections, he would do well by considering lakhs of duplicate entries, fake addresses, and non-existent houses flood the lists among others.

Congress media and publicity department chairman Pawan Khera slammed the Bihar CEO after he claimed that during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar, with regard to the addition and deletion of names in the electoral list by the Electoral Registration Officer in all 243 assembly constituencies, no appeals have been received before the District