Bihar Pole Survey of illegal immigrants to locate, source of Election Commission | Bharat News
PATNA: The ongoing special amendment to Bihar’s electoral rolls has revealed an uninterrupted number of illegal migrants from Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar living in the state and aims to become voters with Aadhaar, ration cards and dominance certificates acquired through election, acquired through election.The alleged conclusions of the door-to-door voter verification campaign have already become a political hot potato, in which RJD’s Tejashvi Prasad Yadav has rejected him as “rubbish”. The EC is still to make an official statement.Official: Poll Roll will be marked as foreignerOfficials said that during the survey, the final poll role would be purified to anyone who was flagged as a foreigner.The role is to be published on 30 September. The house-to-house verification exercise began on 25 June with focus on verifying the places of birth. Sources said the teams conducting the survey have found “a large number of people from neighboring countries” during their visits across the state.Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly Tejashvi held a presser in Patna to question the reliability of the sources behind the “claim” that foreigners had infiltrated the roll with fake papers.He said, “The Election Commission has issued a document or press release on the matter? This claim is based on ‘sources’, which I have no reason to believe,” he said.The BJP said that Tejashvi and the rest of the opposition were “nervous” about losing their alleged “illegal vote base”. State spokesperson Manoj Sharma said, “If Tejashvi had his own way, he would have allowed citizens of Bangladesh and Pakistan to vote through postal ballots. No wonder that the intensive rolls amendment has left the entire opposition worried.”He accused RJD supporters that they were involved in including illegal immigrants in the role. “Why are Tejasavi worried about illegal migrants, but there are no Bihari migrants outside the state who still have to be included in the electoral role?”
