Bihar Election 2025: The Election Commission of India (ECI) released the final voter list for the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 on Tuesday after completing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The final list now shows 7.42 crore voters, compared with 7.89 crore voters as of June 24 this year. According to an ECI press release, 65 lakh voters were removed from the draft list.
The draft list on August 1, 2025, had 7.24 crore voters. Of these, 3.66 lakh ineligible voters were removed, and 21.53 lakh eligible voters were added using Form 6, bringing the final total to 7.42 crore voters.
The exercise was complex for which Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar thanked all the parties, electors, and other key stakeholders who were involved in the process of SIR. However, once the final voter list was out, it was met with a lot of verbal attacks and jibes from the Opposition.
‘How did 4.6 lakh new voters get added,’ asks Yogendra Yadav
Yogendra Yadav took to X and questioned the EC on how 4.6 lakh new voters got added to the final list. “As per ECI, New Form-6 received till 1st September were 16.93 Lakh. (And any later claim was not to be on the Final Rolls). Yet, as per today’s data, ECI has added 21.53 lakh voters. So the question: How did at least 4.6 Lakh new voters get added in the Final Roll after September 1st?”
Opposition says names of poor, Dalits not included in final voter list
The Congress party strongly criticised the final voter list, calling the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) unfair and lacking transparency. Bihar Congress President Rajesh Kumar said the process had been flawed from the start, yet the Election Commission declared it a success. He pointed out that over 68 lakh voters were removed from the rolls, while only 21.53 lakh names were added. He said the party would make every effort to protect people’s right to vote.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) spokesperson Shakti Singh Yadav claimed, “despite our best efforts, the names of the poor, Dalits, extremely backward and backward classes were not included in the list. We observed that at least 10,000 names were removed in each assembly constituency.”
‘A befitting reply to allegations of Vote Theft,’ says NDA
BJP spokesperson Prabhakar Mishra rejected the opposition’s claims, saying, that the large number of new names that have been added in the final voter list is “a befitting reply to the opposition’s allegations of vote theft.”
JDU chief spokesperson and MLC Neeraj Kumar said that 21.53 lakh new names have been included, mostly from the Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) and Dalit communities. He too said that the Election Commission’s final list is a strong response to the Congress-RJD’s allegations of ‘vote theft’ in Bihar.