ECI Voter List Bihar: Whose use is the list of 65 lakh voters removed? Claims and objections unaffected in special intensive revision

The Election Commission of India, which is busy preparing for the Bihar assembly elections, is on the target of the opposition. During the special intensive revision of voters in Bihar, the opposition kept harassing the Commission throughout the month of July. Then, after this revision on August 1, when the Commission announced the removal of 65 lakh voters by giving information about their death / permanently leaving the polling area / not living in the area / being removed from the voter list of one of the two places, the opposition intensified its attacks. This attack reached such a level that the Supreme Court also asked the Commission to release the list of these 65 lakh voters. The Election Commission released it on Monday, August 18. But, now the question is, for whose use is this? So, the direct answer is that this has been done only to calm the uproar of political parties. It is also interesting to know how.

First know what is in the released list

The list of 65 lakh voters removed in the special intensive revision of voters in Bihar has been released on the Voter Service Portal of the Election Commission of India. The title is- "List of voters, whose names were in the Bihar voter list till 2025, but are not included in the draft roll of 01.08.2025." The link to view it is https://ceoelection.bihar.gov.in/index.html. When you proceed on this link, two options appear. The first option is to view by entering the voter card number (EPIC) and the second is to download the list according to the assembly and part number. On searching by entering the EPIC, the updated information of any one voter will be shown. Whereas, on going through the second option, the list of voters of the booth will be found.

This link will provide relief only to political parties

The Election Commission has released this link to provide information about 65 lakh voters, but only political parties can benefit from it. To take advantage of this, political parties will have to download the list of deleted voters of every polling station and do their physical verification. Exactly the same kind of verification responsibility was given to the BLO in the special intensive revision. It is worth noting that since the time this work was given to BLO, political parties were allowed to give BLA with them and a large number of representatives from Bharatiya Janata Party as well as Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal have appointed such representatives to oversee the work of BLO. Despite this supervision of 1,60,813 BLAs of political parties, no party has lodged a single claim or objection since 1st August. Now, downloading the polling station wise list of 65 lakh voters and doing their physical verification and making claims or objections in the next 12 days is almost impossible.

Voters themselves are making claims or objections, this list is useless

The special thing is that this list of 65 lakh voters is actually of no use to the common voters. If the voters who have been removed from the voter list by the BLO by declaring them dead/permanently leaving the polling area/not living in the area/in the voter list of one of the two places are available, then the process of claim and objection of the voters was started for the same from 3 pm on 1st August. This process is still going on. During this process, some dead names have come out to be alive, which have been coming up during the general revision also had expressed such apprehension during the voter revision itself and brought out the reason that at many places the BLOs are submitting the forms by getting the signatures of the voters themselves without inspecting them themselves.

28370 claims and objections, not even one from political parties

The Election Commission had received applications for claim and objection of 28,370 voters before 4 pm on 15th August. According to the Commission, these are such applications which had come for removing dead people or re-inclusion of living people in the voter list who had been removed. Not a single claim or objection application was received from the political parties. In such a situation, Sunil Kumar Sinha, President of Chanakya Institute of Political Rights and Research, says - "Claims and objections are already being received from those who were removed for some reason. In such a situation, the deleted list will only serve to silence the political parties, not the voters. By releasing this list, the Election Commission has snatched an issue from the opposition or in other words, it has released the list to avoid opposition attack, that's all."