'Uneducated': BJP slams Tejashwi's 'sootra' remark on SIR; demands apology

NEW DELHI: Bihar's elector database contention is snowballing into a governmental slugfest, with BJP person Sanjay Jaiswal connected Sunday launching a fierce onslaught connected RJD scion Tejashwi Yadav for dismissing reports of amerciable overseas nationals being recovered successful the state’s electoral rolls. The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workout by the Election Commission has go a flashpoint betwixt the ruling and absorption camps successful Bihar.Reacting sharply to Tejashwi's comments, Jaiswal pulled nary punches. Speaking to ANI, helium said, "Only Tejashwi Yadav tin marque specified comments astir media unit oregon immoderate quality being successful general. The occupation with Tejashwi Yadav is that helium is not educated, which is wherefore the radical astatine his location marque him memorise immoderate they want, and helium conscionable repeats it.

But if idiosyncratic asks him a question extracurricular of that, helium volition make this benignant of mess.

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Calling the RJD person "uneducated and irresponsible," Jaiswal demanded a nationalist apology. "Tejashwi Yadav should publically apologise, explicit regret, and instrumentality an oath that helium volition not accidental thing beyond what helium is taught astatine home," helium added.The warfare of words escalated aft Tejashwi rubbished reports suggesting that Bangladeshis, Nepalis, and adjacent radical from Myanmar had been detected arsenic voters successful Bihar during the Election Commission’s house-to-house verification.

"Who are these sources?" Tejashwi asked. Mocking the credibility of the reports, helium said, "These are the aforesaid sources that said Islamabad, Karachi, and Lahore person been captured."

He further added, "Ye sootra ko hum mootra samajhte hai."Tejashwi besides questioned the timing and intent of the revision. "SIR was conducted for the past clip successful 2003 nether the UPA government. Since then, we person seen galore elections, including the ones successful 2014, 2019, and 2024.

In those elections, we mislaid by 3 to 4 lakhs. Does that mean each these foreigners voted for PM Modi?... This means that the NDA are astatine responsibility for immoderate dubious elements' names getting added to the elector lists.

"He went connected to assertion that the process was politically motivated. "That means each the elections they person won person been a fraud... SIR is simply a implicit eyewash. The EC is moving arsenic a compartment of a governmental party."Earlier, quality bureau PTI quoted Election Commission officials arsenic saying that field-level teams had identified “a ample number” of suspected overseas nationals, chiefly from Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, during the verification drive.As Bihar heads toward assembly elections aboriginal this year, the Election Commission’s SIR effort to cleanable up the electoral rolls has taken halfway stage, and whitethorn acceptable the code for a nationwide scrutiny of elector lists, peculiarly with a absorption connected verifying individuals’ spot of birth.