New Delhi, July 7: The Congress on Monday claimed the entire opposition stands united in opposing the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar aimed at disenfranchising the vast number of voters due to a “mischievous methodology”.
The party’s in charge of the media and publicity department, Pawan Khera, said the Congress, along with nine political parties, have challenged the “flawed” Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the Supreme Court.
“Today, the Indian National Congress, along with nine political parties, came together to file a challenge to the flawed and destructive Special Intensive Revision (SIR) being carried out by the ECI.
“The entire opposition stands together to oppose an exercise that is guaranteed to disenfranchise a vast number of voters due to its malicious and mischievous methodology. The Supreme Court has listed the matter for Thursday, July 10, 2025. Satyamev Jayate,” Khera said in his post on X.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on July 10 a batch of petitions challenging the decision of the Election Commission to undertake the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
A partial working day (PWD) bench comprising Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi took note of the submissions of a battery of senior lawyers led by Kapil Sibal on behalf of several petitioners and agreed to hear the pleas on Thursday.
Sibal, who appeared for RJD MP Manoj Jha, urged the bench to issue notices to the poll panel on the petitions, saying it is an impossible task to be done within the timeline (as elections are likely to be held in November).
Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for another petitioner, submitted that there are around eight crore voters in the state, of which around four crore voters will have to submit their documents under the exercise. (PTI)
