‘The Same Voter List Elected PM Last Year’: Migrant Workers Amid EC's Bihar Haul
By: Maaz Hasan
Arvind Kumar migrated from Bihar's Madhubani to Delhi in search of work four years ago. Although he knew how to drive, he didn’t have a licence, and to apply for one, he needed an ID with a Delhi address.
The 27-year-old auto-rickshaw driver updated his Aadhaar to his current address in Pandav Nagar, East Delhi, where he lives as a tenant. He also got his PAN card issued on the same address.
Born in 1998, Arvind is a registered voter in Bihar. But now, he doesn’t have any government ID at his disposal that proves his residency there, and he fears his name may be deleted from the voter list.
A month ago, the Election Commission of India (ECI) released a notification announcing a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. "The objective of an intensified revision is to ensure that the names of all eligible citizens are included in the electoral roll so as to enable them to exercise their franchise; no ineligible voter is included in the electoral rolls; and also to introduce complete transparency in the process of addition or deletion of electors in the electoral rolls," the notification stated.
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