The Supreme Court will hear today a bunch of petitions challenging the Election Commission’s “Special Intensive Revision” of Electoral Rolls in Bihar.
A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi will hear the matters.
Petitions have been filed by the MPs Mahua Moitra (Trinamool Congress), Manoj Kumar Jha (Rashtriya Janata Dal), leaders of major opposition parties – KC Venugopal (Indian National Congress), Supriya Sule (Nationalist Congress Party – SP), D Raja (Communist Part of India), Harinder Malik (Samajwadi Party. Arvind Sawant( Shiv Sena UBT), Sarfraz Ahmed (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha), Dipankar Bhattacharya ( Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam etc.
NGOs Association for Democratic Reforms, People’s Union for Civil Liberties, and activist Yogendra Yadav are the other petitioners.
Alongside these petitions, a PIL seeking revision of voter rolls before every elections is also listed before the bench.
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