Public sentiment regarding the Bihar voter list revision is predominantly negative, with widespread fears of disenfranchisement, especially among marginalized communities. Many commenters express frustration with the Election Commission's transparency and the perceived political motivations behind the revision, signaling distrust towards the current government. While some see the need for electoral reforms, the overall sentiment reflects significant concern about the implications for democracy.

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Nitish Kumar

Can you explain how it is clearly trying to eliminate backward class people? It will be same for everyone. Like I will also face problem especially since I am not in Bihar. It more looks like they are testing something to find illegal settlers before WB election.

IndividualB00t

Why exclude aadhar?

A person of your intellect who links this question to a "harm" it supposedly poses to the BC should have had the knowledge of The Hon. SUPREME COURT's stance on AADHAR CARD not being a valid proof of age.
So why should it be used for making an ID whose primary requirement is "AGE"
And please elaborate on why this new set of rules tries to suppress the BC.

Raj943

I didn't understand it can someone help me .. Also I'll be casting my first ever vote this election

Master-Eggplant3838

I've heard that people whose name was there in 2003 voter's list their children will be added to the list and they don't have to provide any documents. The revision of voter's list is necessary there are many people who are no longer living in bihar and many who have come back to Bihar. 

And I understand the decision to exclude aadhar, it's way too easy to make a fake aadhar. And rules will be the same for everyone so I don't understand how it's targeting backward classes, if anything it's targeting illegal migrants.

Maxpro2001

SinkSignificant7431

Bhai kya misinformation faila raha hai 
Pehle thik se jake padh lo kya likha hai uske bad bat Krna

Cold-Toe6549

Mai khud bihar se hun but mera ye manna hai ki Bihar me vast majority of log hai jo jhuggi jhopdi me rahte hai, joki BC hai jinke paas kch bhi nhi hai literally kisi bhi gaon side jaao aise bhtt saare area dikhenge jinke paas proper ghar nhi hai rahne ko koi bhi basic chiz nhi hai. But vo vote toh karte honge na but unko ye kahna ki tum documents laao itne purane ya 2003 list me naam dikhao ye sab toh unse possible nhi hai bc rahne ke liye proper ghar nhi hai uske paas vo ye sab kaha se show karega.

Han ye vaise log ko eliminate karne ke liye accha hai jo bahar se aay hai jinka domicile yhan ka nhi hai but vo bas chuke hai yhan unko problem hogi ya jo illegally hai yhan.

Adhar bc har important jgah lene ko mana kar diya jata hai then government itna kyu efforts daali banane me or ye bhtt hi easily duplicate bhi ban jata hai toh bc ye system kaisa hai ki koi bhi easily bana leta hai.

Or ye sab verification 1 month me karna hai pure Bihar me, Bhtt se log is baar voting se bahar hone vale hai.

Mai khud ek well off family se hu Bihar me and mere grandfather and great grandfather were landlords and we have a vast agricultural land in Bihar and jo log kaam karte hai hamare yhan unlogo problem hone vali hai joki BC ke log hai or unko genuinely concern hai kyuki unpe kch nhi hai. 
Or han vo Bahar se nhi aay kahi se 100-150 saal se vhi jagah pe rah rhe hai but vo abhi bhi suppressed hai.

Ok-Suspect5227

These exercise for illegal Bangladeshi. Mostly in mithila and seemanchal region too many got the aadhar card, but they dont have old identity proof.

Personal_Mirror_5228

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frizene26

Why only the electoral roll of Bihar is given. If any person stayed in any other Indian state for any reason, say job, and have his or her name in electoral roll of that state before 2003, and came back to bihar after 2003 then that person isn't a citizen of India?
The person has to prove in other ways then
 Why?

priyanka_2002

mistic_paplu

Hume neighboring states ke immigrants ko control karna psdega nahin to aise hi chor UP se chadenge,Bihar me utarenge train me aur badnaami hogi Buhar ki

Glum-Caterpillar-916

so basically the ruling gov trying to eliminate backward class ppl who r major voters of opposition RJD damn this is sick...or a step towards dictatorship..??/

Solid_Tip_130

गरीब का हक छीना जा रहा है

New_Confection_714

What about those who were born in 2004?????

Only_Child_009

Agar illigal immigration ko rokna hai toh government ko apna system Shi karna chahiye 
Koi bhi Adhar bana leta hai easily.
Voter id card bhi bana leta hai toh isme fault government ka hai usko theek karna chahiye inhe.

Agar mai abhi koi or state chala jata hu rahne or decide karta hun ki mai vote yhi karunga or ab yhi rahunga toh kitna easy hai mere liye ye karna?

Or agar ye mai kar pata hun sab kch proper ya koi bihar me aake kiya ho ye, or yhi settle hogya ho maybe for some reason toh vo kya kare ab aise situation me?

This looks like its done especially to make a very specific caste group unable to vote or more difficult

shreeojj

Mai tho vote nhi krr rha .. sare currupted , chor h saale

Mother_Wishbone3450

Valid ids issued before 1987?? So no one younger than that can vote?

Gully29

Republicans used to do voter purges in the USA from county lists.

Confused on this practice in India after all there is a voters id card in India.

Ok_Barber_3314

This will me implemented in every state soon. This is just the "testing waters" situation.

Ashamed-Tooth

In Anoop Baranwal v. Union of India (March 2, 2023), a five-judge Constitution Bench directed that appointments of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and Election Commissioners (ECs) must be based on recommendations from a committee consisting of the Prime Minister, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and the Chief Justice of India (CJI), until Parliament enacted legislation

  
However, in December 2023, Parliament passed the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners Act, 2023, which explicitly removed the CJI from the appointment committee and instead included a Union Cabinet Minister nominated by the PM



By excluding the CJI and replacing them with a PM‑chosen minister, the new law gives the BJPee a 2‑to‑1 majority in the committee

sharedevaaste

ED'S main function is to manage elections for BJP. We are heading fast towards a managed democracy like Russia.

GL4389

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The current process in Bihar "aligns with majoritarian narratives that cast a doubt on the loyalty and belonging of certain communities, particularly Muslims, and seeks to diminish their political influence by undermining both their representation and their right to vote."

**Internal survey reveals resentment over roll revision, BJP says concerned**

“SIR has started putting us on the wrong wicket. Whenever we call the voters over their phones to know what they expect from the BJP and how they would help the BJP realise their dreams, the majority of the people express their resentment against the SIR and the BJP,” said a member of the party’s telephone-based survey team.

Ramesh Kumar of Hajipur claimed, “When I got a call from the BJP tele-survey team about how I would be helping BJP in the upcoming Assembly election, my anger got the better of me because many of my family members received slips asking them to submit documents in order to remain in the electoral rolls. Our names have been on the voters’ list for over a couple of decades, and now the ECI, which is doing SIR at the behest of the BJP, is asking me for proof of my citizenship.”

Another survey team member revealed, “Due to the ongoing SIR exercise, 6-7 out of 10 people contacted for their views and expectations from the BJP bluntly vented their anger against the party. It is not a good sign for the party before the election.”

Many affected citizens, even long-time BJP supporters, claim the SIR has forced them to reconsider their support. “Aap kuch bhi chhap do, BJP wale apki baton ko nahi manenge aur SIR chalte rahega. Result will be very drastic this time—earth-shattering for BJP,” said Nirmal Kumar, a BJP worker from Patna. He added, “I also gave a dressing down to the caller the moment he asked me how I would be helping the BJP in this election.”

Preferring anonymity, several BJP workers and leaders from both the party and its allies—JDU and LJP (RV)—expressed frustration over the exercise. They said many rural voters, who don’t possess birth or residential certificates, have been asked to submit them to stay on the rolls. “Believe me or not, but 15-20% voters of the BJP and 10-15% voters of the JDU would not be able to vote this time as they would not be able to furnish the required documents. They have Aadhaar and EPICs, but those are not accepted,” said a senior BJP leader.

Rajesh Kumar from Gaya said 50-60 BJP-supporting families in his village have been asked to provide eligibility documents. “Now they would not be able to vote if their names get dropped from the revised electoral rolls.” Some BJP members said, “The BJP leaders also understand it and are worried about the emerging situation, but they are not venting their protest only because they are disciplined party workers.”

https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2025/Jul/10/internal-survey-reveals-resentment-over-roll-revision-bjp-says-concerned

rishianand

This combined with online voting will ensure that bjp will win with majority again. Anyone wanna bet?

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A masterstroke by modi ji to uplift the poor people of bihar by actually removing them. Both Cost effective and fast.

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[Rahul Gandhi to join Bihar bandh on July 9 against electoral roll revision, labour codes - The Hindu](https://www.thehindu.com/elections/bihar-assembly/rahul-gandhi-to-visit-patna-on-july-9-will-join-protests-over-electoral-rolls-revision-labour-code/article69783083.ece)

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Xakemi83

still people are not gonna realise and gonna go in the election and vote for the same shit again.

Jaat Dharm is more important than anything else.

BionicWanderer2506

Modiji ne kiya hai toh soch samajhke hi kiya hoga naa....

drdeepakjoseph

This has happened in bihar before, if there are illegitimate voters then they should be removed, shouldn't we rather try to make this process more robust rather than trying to boycott it entirely 

What country allows foreigners to vote in elections?

Icy-Tie9359

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Poverty has reduced in india greatly, extreme poverty is below 2.3%. But commies use lies to push their agenda. Bangladeshis should not be allowed to vote, but commies want them not to be excluded from voter list

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As a resident of West Bengal, I have seen first hand how these electoral rolls work. 

My late grandfather died 5years back, he's still in the electoral rolls. 
A lot of my friends had been unable to vote in the local elections (they were able to freely vote in LS and VidhanSabha though) because someone had already cast their vote for them. 


I even know a Bangladeshi (Hindu Brahmin) who came to Kolkata some 10years back on a medical visa. Recently, he bought a land in our area because he has all Indian documents including passport and voter card. 


My uncle has 2 voter cards in different booths because when he was a teenager, he used to play football. So back then he made fake birth certificates to conceal his age and later made two separate document trails to get more ration. 



I can even provide voter data which clearly shows voter inflation in the last 20 years. 
For example my Ward in Kolkata Municipal Corporation has 70 thousand voters. Across the road, it's a minority dominated area and a different ward. The voter count in that ward has increased to 2 lakhs. 
When next delimitation happens, it's going to be very difficult. 




Personally I believe a thorough verification is required across India to determine citizenship because there are too many loopholes in the current system. 

Then again I sympathize with the poor rural folks who are getting overwhelmed by all these issues.

MadHorse6969

The opposition is portraying this as bad because they stand to lose the illegal kangladeshi and rohingya voters that they illegally added to the voters list. 

Also this a routine procedure that was also done in 2003. People are not understanding the potential of technology in easing the voter verification. In one alone around 10 million voters were verified, all the potential 70-80 million voters can be verified comfortably in 30 days time set aside for it. 

Democracy loses it meaning if illegals and non-citizens vote in election. After operation Sindoor, when pakistanis were kicked out we saw so many testimonials of pak citizens living in India claiming that they voted in elections, were giving interviews for govt jobs etc. 

Such level of voter list clean up should be done in all the states, after Bihar giving priority to states that will have state assembly elections.

KizaruMus

What do you mean "undermining it"? How is a data cleaning effort undermining democracy?  
Given the amount of bogus votes that get cast, at times under the names of deceased people too, this effort is very much needed.

DamnBored1

Hello u/hardeep1singh,

Looks like you decided to run away after failing to have any credible counter for simple questions.

Anyways,

&gt; _"Are you thick? How is this an excuse? And what's with the name calling? You're an Andhbhakt, you have access to Modi's balls but can you access their internal documents?_" 
&gt; _"This is exactly why you are hiding behind inaccessible data. You know I can't get it but that doesn't make your bullshit any true."_

This is what you're saying, isn't it?

So listen u/hardeep1singh,

I have absolutely no reason to believe that there exist certain _"internal documents"_ pertaining to certain political parties which may or may not implicate those political parties in certain alleged election fraud.

For anyone to believe that, YOU need to SHOW evidence that such a thing exists. Because it is you who is claiming that. And not anyone else.

This is a critical thinking sub. Not like your loser libbu reddit echo chambers where you can pelo anything and it is accepted as long as it is _"anti-Modi"_ because unlike those loser subs, members everywhere else aren't suffering from Modi Derangement Syndrome.

Get Well Soon! 

(And try not to get into a fit of rage and block people here and there like a small child. Grow up, will you?)

Peacetime-Liberal

This is constitutional right and responsibility of ECI to keep updating electoral rolls at regular intervals. This keeps happening but this time opposition is ranting too much because in last few years many fake voters have been added. Obviously, ECI don't know whom votes for which party

BigSweet3806

It's over for the opposition parties. BJP is gonna rule this country for the next millennia if no one can do anything about it. And all these fks were crying about corruption and democracy pre-2014 😂 What a bunch of hypocrites.

MusixStar

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charavaka

Democracy was long dead, now they are openly putting her into the grave

rickirathi

Caste and religion data of those 37% should be released. Bihar has caste census so that data would be available.

Then will we see same distribution of caste and religion as per latest census?

gagan1985

“foreign illegal immigrants”. This is NRC

bigcock_loaded

Democracy was long dead, now they are putting her into the grave

Accomplished_Sir_362

Lol they're finding legal ways to destroy a voter's right

Beneficial_You_5978

throwawaystedaccount

Casually removing voting rights of 30 million people. Mother of Democracy.

Alarming_Echo_4748

Try ---&gt; " Show Documents for Schemes like Ladaki Bahen Yojana, " 


They will Provide 22 documents.


Office ke bahar line na lagi toH Main Reddit छोड Dunga...

1kshvaku

Ok I might get hate for this but I don't see anything wrong in this, election commission did this after the 2005 elections as well because multiple voter ids had become ultra common, they had to filter out repeated name+father's name combos, people just changed their district and made another voter id at that time

There is nothing wrong in this. Gonna leave my previous comment here.



[https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/maharashtra-ats-arrests-bangladeshi-nationals-indian-passports-fake-documents-9386476/](https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/maharashtra-ats-arrests-bangladeshi-nationals-indian-passports-fake-documents-9386476/)

[https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2025/May/03/bangladeshi-national-who-entered-tn-illegally-in-2001-voted-in-three-polls-held](https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2025/May/03/bangladeshi-national-who-entered-tn-illegally-in-2001-voted-in-three-polls-held)

There is a very real and important need to investigate voters and find if they are genuine or not. As if leeching off of our country isn't enough, we cannot have foreigners be voting in our elections.

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RewardNew8047

The Supreme Court is set to hear petitions challenging the Election Commission of India's (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, described by some as 'unconstitutional' and potentially disenfranchising eligible voters.

Bihar Voter List Revision Controversy

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