EC mulls house-to-houseverification before Bihar polls

 

 

 

THE Election Commission is contemplating intensive house-to-house verification during the revision of electoral rolls for the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls due later this year, sources said on Sunday. Concerns have been raised by various civil society organisations, political parties and others persistently over the inclusion or deletion of names in the electoral rolls.

 

Parties, including the Congress, have accused the poll authority of fudging data to help the BJP. Officials lamented that despite following a detailed protocol, insinuations and allegations are often made against the EC for arbitrarily inflating the electoral roll, even though the exercise is conducted with complete transparency and under constant scrutiny of the political parties. To make the system robust and free of any kind of errors, the poll panel is contemplating an intensive house-to-house verification during the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls to “purify” the electoral rolls, sources said.