The CPI(ML) Liberation has announced that its Booth Level Agents (BLAs) have filed additional claims and objections in the prescribed affidavit format under the SIR process with the appropriate authorities in Bihar. These include:
1. 196 – Tarari Assembly (Booth No. 314), by BLA-2 Md. Fayaz.
2. 194 – Ara Assembly (244), by BLA-2 Mukesh Prasad.
3. 214 – Arwal Assembly, by BLA-2, objecting to the deletion of Dharmraj Rajwar and Hare Krishna Das from Part No. 173.
4. 25 – Bahadurpur Assembly (Darbhanga), by BLA-2 Kisun Paswan, objecting to the deletion of Dashrath Paswan from Part No. 299.
Copies of these BLA affidavits have also been forwarded to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Election Commission of India (ECI), and the CEO Bihar via email.
It was further noted that affidavits and objections earlier filed on 21 and 20 August 2025 — in 213 – Karakat Assembly (Booth No. 171) by BLA-2 Prashant Kumar, and in 194 – Ara Assembly (Booth No. 100) by BLA-2 Shri Vishwakarma Paswan — had already been forwarded to the Election Commission of India by CPI(ML) Central Headquarters.
It is significant to note that for over half of the Claims and Objections period, the ECI had no specific format for political parties or their BLAs to file complaints. Only recently did the ECI introduce such a format, as reflected in its daily press release dated 18 August 2025. And it was only through the continuous insistence and persistence of the party that this format was finally made known. Until recently, the ECI continued to issue misleading bulletins showing “zero submissions” from political parties, despite several objections having been filed by CPI(ML) BLAs earlier.
CPIML Bihar State Secretary, Kunal (SK Chaudhary), said that despite procedural hurdles and lack of clarity from the Election Commission, the party’s BLAs have been continuously filing objections to protect the names of genuine voters wrongly and arbitrarily excluded during the SIR process. He stressed that all objections have also been officially forwarded to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), ECI, for necessary action, and demanded that they be duly acknowledged and recorded.
With the large number of cases of genuine voter exclusions coming to light, it is clear that the entire Bihar SIR process has been carried out in haste and arbitrarily. The attitude of the ECI, Kunal said, has been one of obstructionism and abdication of its constitutional duty to ensure that no genuine voter is left out.
- HQ, CPI(ML) Liberation
