Bihar SIR: 23 lakh women voters removed, claims Congress

NEW DELHI: Congress on Sunday alleged that the names of 23 lakh women have been removed from the voters' list of Bihar , with a bulk of them being from dalit and Muslim segments and in seats that witnessed a close contest in the 2020 assembly election.

The Election Commission is continuing the "conspiracy' designed to take out names from the voters' list to help the governing BJP , Congress spokesperson Alka Lamba alleged as she urged party workers to mount a vigilance to thwart their "nefarious designs".

Lamba claimed that 23 lakh names, out of a total of 3.5 crore women votesrs in Bihar, have been removed from six districts, adding that the same women had voted in the 2024 Lok Sabha election too which put BJP in office.

"The six districts in Bihar from where the names of maximum number of women have been removed from the voters' list are Gopalganj, Saran, Begusarai, Samastipur, Bhojpur, and Purnea," she said, adding that they account for 59 assembly seats.