SIR in Bihar: JD(U) MP says ECI not in contact with floor realities

#Janata Dal (United) Member of Parliament from Banka, #Giridhari Yadav, on Wednesday (July 23, 2025) expressed reservations over the continuing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in #Bihar, stating that the #Election Commission of India (ECI) had no understanding of the “floor realities” within the State.

While Opposition events such because the Congress, Rashtriya #Janata Dal, #Samajwadi Party, and #Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam have been protesting towards the SIR in Parliament and the #Bihar Assembly, constituents of the ruling #National Democratic Alliance (NDA), together with the #Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), JD(U), and Lok Janshakti Party, have supported the train as a measure to scrub the electoral rolls forward of the Assembly elections later this yr.

Mr. Yadav, talking to The Hindu, clarified that his remarks mirrored his private views and had not been mentioned along with his occasion management. “I’m an MP, and my constituents, particularly those that are poor, are discovering it troublesome to get paperwork. What was the hurry for this train? Couldn’t the ECI have begun it far earlier?” he requested.

He added that it had taken him practically 10 days to acquire paperwork for his son, who was overseas on the time of the revision. “My constituency has people who find themselves additionally migrant labourers. Their contractors don’t give them depart to go house and fill out varieties. The ECI ought to have given extra time. The complete public of #Bihar is upset by this train,” he mentioned.

While Mr. Yadav has gone on report, JD(U) leaders mentioned there was inner unease throughout the occasion over the SIR. “The JD(U) will get votes in catchment areas the place the BJP doesn’t. Rich, higher castes could have paperwork; our voters could not,” a celebration supply mentioned.

An vital a part of JD(U) and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s political technique has concerned outreach to backward or Pasmanda Muslims within the State. According to Ali Anwar, former JD(U) MP and nationwide president of the All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz, the SIR could profit the BJP, however not the JD(U).

“The JD(U) has already come right down to 43 seats in 2020 from 71 seats in 2015. Supporting this train shall be like placing the final nail within the occasion’s coffin,” he mentioned.

On Wednesday (July 23, 2025), each Houses of Parliament had been adjourned inside minutes amid continued Opposition protests over the revision of electoral rolls in #Bihar.