The Supreme Court has observed that no voter had come forward to challenge a deletion in Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi noted that deletions from the voter roll were correctly done on grounds of death, migration and duplication despite the widespread apprehension voiced earlier about mass exclusions in Bihar.
During the hearing of a bunch of petitions challenging the legality of the SIR, CJI Surya Kant said, “We experienced a strange thing in Bihar. We kept on directing, sent our paralegal volunteers…nobody came forward to say I have been excluded."
Reacting to the apex court’s comments, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s vote chori narrative has suffered a setback.
“Rahul Gandhi’s vote chori narrative got a setback from the Supreme Court today. The top court said apprehensions were created that names of over a crore voters would be deleted, but no one came forward to challenge it. Rahul Gandhi’s own allies like SP, TMC don’t believe in vote chori," he said.
