Bihar 2025: In 11 Seats, SIR Deletions Outnumbered Victory Margins

 A close analysis of the 2025 Bihar assembly election reveals a critical detail: in 11 seats, the number of voters removed from the rolls during the pre-election special intensive revision (SIR) was greater than the winner’s margin of victory.

This finding highlights the pre-election debate over the SIR process. The political opposition had warned that the deletions could disproportionately affect the results in tight contests. The final results now allow that claim to be tested with data, identifying the specific battlegrounds where the number of removed voters is higher than the margin separating the winner and the runner-up.

https://thewire.in/politics/bihar-2025-sir-deletions-outnumbered-victory-margins-11-seats 

by Pavan Korada

15/11/2025

Election Commission Says 3 Lakh Voters Added After SIR in Bihar as per Rules

The Congress had on Saturday alleged vote theft in Bihar through the addition of new voters after the SIR. It had pointed to the 7.42 crore voters on Bihar’s electoral rolls after the SIR and the increase by 3 lakh to 7.45 crore when the poll schedule was announced.

The results of the Bihar assembly elections 2025 saw the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) registering a sweeping victory in the state winning 202 of the 243 seats. The opposition Mahagathbandhan was reduced to only 35 seats. While the Congress won only 6 seats, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) which was the single largest party in the 2020 elections was reduced to its lowest tally in a decade of only 25 seats.

https://thewire.in/government/election-commission-says-3-lakh-voters-added-after-sir-in-bihar-as-per-rules 

17/11/2025

The ‘Business as Usual’ Inertia of the Opposition and the Loss of Bihar

The BJP’s dominance endures not only because of its own strategy but because the opposition has abandoned politics as a mass, ideological, and organisational project. Until they face this reality, defeats like Bihar will continue. https://thewire.in/politics/the-business-as-usual-inertia-of-the-opposition-and-the-loss-of-bihar 

 
The Bihar election results stunned many, though they should not have. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA swept the polls after deploying every available lever of state power – from the Election Commission’s controversial Special Investigation Review (SIR) of the voter list to Nitish Kumar’s blatantly illegal transfer of Rs. 10,000 to women voters after the poll schedule was announced. The opposition, meanwhile, ran on slogans of “vote chori” and vague promises like one government job per family. As in almost every election over the past decade, the contest was anything but free and fair.
Yet the more serious question is how the opposition, particularly the Congress, understood what it was up against. It showed no sign that it recognised the nature of the adversary or the scale of the political transformation underway. Trapped in its habitual “business as usual” inertia, it repeated the same script that has consistently delivered defeat.

by Anand Teltumbde

17/11/2025

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