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NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Tejashwi Yadav on Friday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, accusing them of attempting to erase the names of poor and marginalised voters from the electoral rolls.“The Election Commission has suddenly announced a special intensive revision. This means that the voter list published in February, which had the latest additions and deletions, has now been set aside.”He mentioned that the complete listing of eight crore Bihari voters has been sidelined, and now a recent voter listing can be created from scratch.He raised doubts over why this course of is being carried out with solely two months left earlier than the elections and the feasibility of finishing it in time.“This clearly raises a question, why is this being done just two months before the elections? And is it even possible to prepare a fresh voter list of eight crore people within just 25 days?”“Not only that, documents demanded are what the poor simply don’t have,” the RJD chief mentioned.Tejaswi added that his social gathering will take up the problem with the election fee and ship a delegation to current detailed objections in the approaching days.He additional accused PM Modi and Nitish Kumar of conspiring to erase the names of poor and marginalised voters from the electoral rolls below the guise of the EC’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive.“The matter is clear, Nitish Ji and Modi Ji are scared.Their intention is to get the names of poor people removed from the voter list. In a democracy, the most important right that the poor have is the right to vote. And now the BJP and Nitish Ji want to snatch that right away from the poor, the oppressed, and those on the margins of society, the backbenchers, those who stand at the end of the social ladder.”Earlier this week, the election fee issued a notification clarifying that the SIR in Bihar goals to guarantee inclusion of all eligible voters, get rid of ineligible names, and enhance transparency. It mentioned that elements like fast urbanisation, migration, deaths, and the chance of unlawful overseas entrants are a significant cause for the revision. The final such revision in the state occurred in 2003.Meanwhile, Congress has additionally objected to the train. Party spokesperson Pawan Khera accused the EC of appearing as a “puppet” of Prime Minister Modi. “For a long time, we have been pressuring the Election Commission and saying their process is not transparent. With this new conspiracy, lakhs of people in Bihar and across India will be deprived of their right to vote,” Khera mentioned throughout a go to to the state.