Bihar has elections this year. The maximum time will be left for three months. Meanwhile, the Election Commission of India started special intensive revision of voters from 25 June and it will run till 26 July. After this, all the forms will be submitted and the draft voter list will be released on 1 August and from that day on 1 September, it can be claimed that who is missed. In Bihar, the opposition is creating a ruckus about the revision of door-to-door from 25 June to 26 July. Tejashwi Yadav has jumped the Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly to include other states in the uproar. Along with the leaders of South Indian states, Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Mamta Banerjee, Akhilesh Yadav have also written letters. But, on Thursday, there was such a thing in the Bihar Legislative Assembly that Tejashwi Yadav was also left. Understand in question and answer, what came in front today and how will it affect other states too?
Voter revision takes place before every election. How is it different?
If there is any kind of election in any state, then there is definitely revision once. During this revision, a new voter adds his name. Someone removes the name of the dead voter. This is a general revision. Intensive revision is different.
What happens in intensive revision and what is its process?
In intensive revision, the Election Commission sends the booth level officer (BLO) from door to door as its representative. Those who are already voters in the house have verification. There is a process of connecting new voters, but most of the time it is seen who is not alive now or has become a voter from elsewhere.
When did this happen in Bihar before the intensive revision of this time?
Earlier in Bihar, intensive revision was done in 2003. Since then, the process of general revision has been done before all types of elections. This time intensive revision is being done from 25 June to 26 July. After that the claim and objection will be taken by publishing the draft voter list.
What will happen after 26 July, if everything is done by that time?
New voters will also join. If someone is released from verification or being alive, if he is said to be dead or despite being a voter of his booth, his objection will be investigated and the name will be added. Those who do not have documents mentioned, will be physically verified that they are actually the traditional-dynastic voters of the same assembly constituency.
So, then what is the problem for the opposition, due to which the vote is a matter of boycott?
The opposition says that it should have been done only after the Lok Sabha elections. This is being done in a hurry just before the Bihar assembly elections. According to the opposition, this process cannot be done within 30 days. The real objection is about 30 days. The case in the Supreme Court states that the Election Commission is investigating citizenship. Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary said on this question on Thursday that “the constitution has written that the person who has got citizenship has the franchise. Special intensive revision is also being done under the Constitution and Public Representation Act. Any person living here will get the franchise only when he is a citizen of India. If he is a citizen of India. If he is a citizen, then no franchise can be taken away from it.
What is the claim of the Election Commission of India?
The Election Commission of India claims that it has completed the verification of 98.01% voters of Bihar’s current voter list by 23 July. In these, the names of 20 lakh dead voters were found. Meaning, their names will be removed. The names of 28 lakh permanent migration voters were found. Meaning, who are now living elsewhere from the voter list assembly constituency. Apart from this, 7 lakh voters have made their name more than one place, meaning they will remain voters of the same place where verification will be done this time. According to the Election Commission, till July 23, 1 lakh voters from Bihar’s voter list are not found. There is no information about them yet. Return if something returns to claim objection. Apart from this, the Election Commission says that 1.5 million voters have not yet returned the format. And, so far 7.17 crore voters (90.89%) have been digitized and digitized.
When the verification of more than 98 percent has been done, now the work is almost on completion. Why is the matter of cancellation again?
The opposition says that Dalits, backward, minorities and illiterate people are not voters of the Bharatiya Janata Party, so at the behest of the Election Commission is conspiring to disappear such voters of Bihar from the voter list. For this reason, all this is being done in such a short time that such people are not able to submit the demands and take away the franchise.
The verification of more than 98 percent before 30 days was done. How long did it happen last time?
If the Election Commission had given this information first, the ruckus would not have increased. On Thursday, when Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav described 30 days inappropriate in the Bihar Assembly, Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, minister of the state’s Nitish Kumar government, said that when Lalu Prasad Yadav’s wife Rabri Devi was the Chief Minister in 2003, this intensive revision was done in 30 days. Then from 15 July 2003 to 14 August 2003, house-to-house investigation was done.
When the same time is given, will there be a ruckus about increasing population?
Protests in democracy are possible, but as far as the population of that time and the current population is concerned, it is still manifold. But, at that time there was no system of computerized form, filled data, download-upload etc. that work should be done so fast. As far as household investigation is concerned, when Tejashwi Yadav was the Deputy Chief Minister in the previous government, the caste census was conducted by taking forward the decision of the National Democratic Alliance government in Bihar. Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary said on Thursday that between 7 January 2023 and 21 January 2023, the survey work was done in just 15 days in the entire Bihar.
If this process is completed in Bihar, what will happen next?
This process is going to be completed in the first phase. After this, all the claims and objections will be seen by August. The time of real controversy will remain the same and if everything goes out properly at that time, the Election Commission will publish the list of real voters by discovering intensive revision in many states in this way. After Bihar, the second goal will be West Bengal as there has been talk of most outsiders becoming voters there.
