India, Sept. 27 -- After the Election Commission on Saturday issued a statement on SIR, BJP president Nitin Nabin alleged that the Congress tried to build its allegations around a "manufactured lie" to attack the poll panel.

"The opposition has once again been exposed for misleading the public on SIR," Nabin said in a post on X. The BJP chief's remarks came after the Election Commission (EC) on Saturday asserted that all orders related to Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were issued after approval from all three election commissioners, and the changes in Form 6, through which names are included in the voters' list, have been upheld by the Supreme Court.

Amid the ongoing row over "differences" between two election comm...