Updated on: August 17, 2025 03:56 PM IST
The CEC said that 15 days Bihar drafts were left to improve the election roll and each party was called to contact the ECI.
Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanash Kumar said on Sunday that the doors of the pole body are equally open to all, calling every political party to increase any problem with the draft role of electoral rolls under Bihar sir.
The CEC said that 15 days Bihar drafts were left to improve the election roll and each party was called to contact the ECI. He commented on a press conference on various election issues in Delhi
The CEC said, “15 days are still left. The Election Commission calls every political party, any problem in the electoral role given to them should be brought before the Commission by forms set in the next 15 days.”
The CEC cited the concerns of the confidentiality of the voters to argue as to why it did not share the CCTV footage from the polling booths in the recent elections, even leveling serious allegations of irregularities, led by the opposition, led by Rahul Gandhi,, led by Rahul Gandhi.
“As is the concern of machine-elective electoral rolls, the Hon’ble Supreme Court has already called it in 2019 that this voter can cause a violation in privacy. We saw in the last few days that photographs of many voters were used and put forward in the media without their permission. Should the Election Commission share CCTV footage of our mothers, daughter or daughter?” CEC said.
The CEC said the polling body would decide when to operate one head in West Bengal and other states. He said that the decision will be announced at the appropriate time.
“We three commissioners will take decisions at a reasonable time and decide to operate the head in West Bengal or other states. It will be declared at the appropriate time,” he said.
CEC Gyanash Kumar asked whether the electoral rolls should be revised before or after the election.
“Of course, before the election. It is the duty of the Election Commission,” he said.
