SC order on SIR exposed BJP, its nefarious design to disenfranchise people: Tejashwi Yadav

Patna: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday claimed that the Supreme Court order directing the ECI to publish details of 65 lakh deleted names from the voters list in Bihar exposed the BJP, its allies and their “nefarious design” to disenfranchise people.

Yadav also thanked INDIA bloc leaders such as Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Mamata Banerjee, Hemant Soren and Sharad Pawar for unitedly opposing the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state.

“Today's interim order of the SC over SIR in Bihar has exposed the BJP, its allies and their nefarious design to disenfranchise people. Our fight will continue and we will keep an eye on officials involved in the SIR exercise,” Yadav, the leader of the opposition in the state assembly, told reporters here.

Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to publish details of 65 lakh deleted names from the voters list with reasons of non-inclusion to enhance transparency in Bihar's special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi passed the order while hearing pleas challenging the June 24 ECI decision to conduct the SIR of the electoral rolls in Bihar.