{"id":22025,"date":"2025-07-22T18:25:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=22025"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:26:26","slug":"in-single-day-ec-finds-8-37-lakh-bihar-voters-to-be-deceased-or-permanently-shifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=22025","title":{"rendered":"India: In Single Day, EC Finds 8.37 Lakh Bihar Voters To Be Deceased or Permanently Shifted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The dramatic surge appears to directly contradict the findings of a comprehensive voter roll clean-up completed just this January.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Officials gather for a review meeting under the EC’s special intensive revision of Bihar’s voter roll. Photo: X\/@CEOBihar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Election Commission (EC) today released data revealing a dramatic overnight surge in electors classified as deceased or permanently shifted in Bihar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With just three days left before the July 25 deadline for its massive and controversial voter re-verification drive, the figures show that 8,37,262 voters were added to the \u201cnot found at their addresses\u201d category in a single day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This development raises serious questions about the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise, as it appears to directly contradict the findings of a comprehensive electoral roll clean-up completed just six months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the EC\u2019s press note issued Tuesday<\/a> (July 22), the total number of \u201celectors not found\u201d jumped from 43.93 lakh on July 21 to 52.30 lakh on July 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of reportedly deceased electors increased by 2,11,462 to a new total of 18.66 lakh. Simultaneously, the count of electors marked as \u201cpermanently shifted\u201d grew by 6,25,800 to reach 26.01 lakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This massive re-categorisation of voters was not matched by corresponding fieldwork. The EC\u2019s own data table shows that its booth-level officers collected a mere 884 new enumeration forms during the same 24-hour window, suggesting the surge is a result of large-scale data reconciliation rather than new, on-ground verification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While on-the-ground verification relies on field officers physically visiting voters, data reconciliation is an administrative process where different lists are compared in an office to flag potential errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sudden appearance of these large numbers creates a paradox. The EC had just concluded a special summary revision for Bihar\u2019s nearly 7.9 crore electors in January this year. An investigation by The Reporters\u2019 Collective<\/em><\/a> found that this exercise was not only considered robust but that the TRC<\/em>\u2018s own metrics proved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report noted that the statistical \u201chealth\u201d of the January roll showed no anomalous trends when compared to the final rolls of the previous four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the January revision had already accounted for migration, identifying and processing 1.91 lakh shifted voters. The EC\u2019s current claim of having now found 26.01 lakh permanently shifted electors just months later implies that over 24 lakh voters migrated out of their constituencies in the last six months without being captured \u2013 a figure that strains credulity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A senior official involved in the January exercise was quoted in the TRC<\/em> report<\/a> confirming the roll\u2019s integrity, stating, \u201cI cannot say that we found any [anomalies] at the entire state level in the exercise concluded in January 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday\u2019s data also reveals a significant overnight shift in the task assigned to Bihar\u2019s political parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, the EC announced<\/a> it had asked 12 major parties to help locate 73.55 lakh voters. However, in its press release today, the EC stated it has now shared \u201cdetailed lists of the 21.36 lakh electors whose Forms have not been received so far and also of the nearly 52.30 lakh electors who are reportedly deceased or permanently shifted or have enrolled at multiple places.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This redefines the parties\u2019 role, shifting their focus from primarily collecting forms to also verifying the status of over 52 lakh voters flagged by the EC\u2019s internal data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the deadline looming, the EC appears to be shifting from on-ground verification to administrative data reconciliation and reliance on political machinery to close the significant gaps in its exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final draft electoral roll, set to be published on August 1, will reveal the consequences of this chaotic and contested process for lakhs of Bihar\u2019s voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/thewire.in\/government\/bihar-sir-surge-single-day-8-37-lakh-voters-not-found<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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