CEC Parries Question On Political Parties’ Bid To ‘Misguide’ Voters Over Bihar SIR

New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Monday shared a detailed blueprint of Phase II of the nationwide rollout of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), an exercise for the verification of electoral rolls. However, he dodged a direct answer on the drive facing stiff opposition from political parties, with a couple of them resisting it tooth and nail.

CEC Gyanesh Kumar, replying to an IANS question on ‘politicisation’ of the voter verification drive in Bihar, said that the Election Commission doesn’t believe that political parties opposed the SIR in the state.

Referring to the CEC’s first press conference on the Bihar SIR in August this year, the IANS correspondent recalled the poll panel’s observations that political parties, the Mahagathbandhan in particular, oppo