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Bihar: Repeated attempts were made, allegedly by the BJP, to delete nearly 80,000 Muslim voters from the electoral rolls in the Dhaka constituency in the East Champaran district of Bihar, a report by the Reporters Collective has revealed.<\/p>\nBihar: Repeated attempts were made, allegedly by the BJP, to delete nearly 80,000 Muslim voters from the electoral rolls in the Dhaka constituency in the East Champaran district of Bihar, a report by the Reporters Collective has revealed.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, the report said the submissions included an official letter from the BJP’s state headquarters in Patna, addressed to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of the state, demanding massive voter deletion targeting Muslims, claiming that they were not Indian citizens.<\/p>\n
The investigation found that the initial attempt was made by one Dhiraj Kumar, the saffron party’s booth-level agent (BLA) in Dhaka and also the personal assistant of the constituency’s BJP MLA, Pawan Kumar Jaiswal.<\/p>\n
The initial submissions, seeking the removal of as many as 130 Muslims, were made within a period of thirteen days before the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) deadline for submitting amendments to the draft list published after the first phase of the controversial Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. The submissions, ten each for thirteen days starting on August 19, were made to the district Electoral Registration Officer.<\/p>\n
The petitions signed by the BLA on behalf of the party said, “I hereby declare that the information furnished by me is on the basis of proper verification of the part of the electoral roll given to me and I am aware of the penal provisions of Section 31 of Representation of People\u2019s Act, 1950 for making false declaration.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, it did not mention why the party wanted the voters to be deleted from the list, even when the application forms required the BLAs to provide reasons.<\/p>\n
The most bizarre submission was made on the last day for the submission of complaints, August 31. The submission, signed by Dhiraj Kumar, sought the removal of 78,384 Muslim voters from Dhaka’s electoral rolls. Their names and EPIC numbers were listed systematically in the submission.<\/p>\n
The submission said that people who had not existed on the voter list till January 2025 had been put on the SIR draft list without providing the various documentary proofs that the ECI mandated, including their domicile certificates.<\/p>\n
Subsequently, an official letter on the letterhead of the BJP state headquarters in Patna was sent to the CEO, seeking the deletion of the 78,384 Muslim voters, but for a different reason. The letter claimed that the voters were not Indian citizens.<\/p>\n
The letter was signed by one ‘Lokesh’ as Tirhut Pramandal Prabhari, Election Management Department, Bihar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bihar: Repeated attempts were made, allegedly by the BJP, to delete nearly 80,000 Muslim voters from the electoral rolls in the Dhaka constituency in the East Champaran district of Bihar, a report by the Reporters Collective has revealed. According to Kashmir Media Service, the report said the submissions included an official letter from the BJP’s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":184867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184870,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184866\/revisions\/184870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}