PatnaJul 23, 2025 13:32 IST
First published on: Jul 23, 2025 at 13:32 IST
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Amid the ongoing row over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Bihar ahead of assembly elections scheduled later this year, Giridhari Yadav, an MP from JD(U), the state’s ruling party and a BJP ally, on Wednesday said the exercise by the Election Commission is a “Tughlaqi farman” (ill-conceived diktat) and that it took him “10 days to arrange the necessary documents”.
Speaking with ANI outside the Parliament, the MP from Banka said, “Election Commission has no practical knowledge. It neither knows the history nor the geography of Bihar; it knows nothing.”
He asked that amid this monsoon season, when farming is ongoing, how will one arrange the documents required for the SIR. “It took 10 days for me to arrange all the documents,” the parliamentarian said, adding that his son lives in America. “How will he do the signature in just a month?”
“This (SIR) has been imposed on us forcefully,” Yadav said, arguing that if the Election Commission had to do it, “they should have given six months of time…”
“Ye Tughlaqi farman hai chunav aayog ka,” the JD(U) leader said.
The MP, however, clarified that he was giving his “personal opinion” and it “doesn’t matter what his party is saying”.
“How will my son sign in America, you tell me,” he said. “I’m telling you my own experience… This is my independent thought… This is the truth. If I can’t say the truth, why have I become an MP?”
The JD(U) MP’s comments are in line with the Bihar Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav’s argument in Vidhan Sabha today, where in the first half of the session, he stated that they “are not against the SIR but the hurried process.”
