Updated On: 22 July, 2025 12:04 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Opposition leaders in Parliament submitted motions to discuss the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. Citing democratic risks, they demanded urgent debate, expressing concerns about exclusion of poor, migrants, and marginalized communities from voting ahead of the 2025 Assembly elections.

Congress president Mallikajun Khadge and LoP Rahul Gandhi. Pic/PTI
With the fuming ongoing Monsoon Parliament Session in New Delhi, several opposition MPs submitted notices to move adjournment motions in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to discuss the issue of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar on Tuesday.
As reported by ANI, Congress MP Manickam Tagore gave a notice to move an adjournment motion to discuss the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar and its "threat to democratic rights" in the Lok Sabha.
Whereas Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh gave a notice of motion to discuss the "constitutional and electoral implications" of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar in the upper house of the Parliament.