India, Sept. 29 -- The developments over the controversial Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar have kept the political temperature boiling for the past three months. Observers are keenly awaiting September 30 and October 7, 2025. On these dates, the Election Commission of India (ECI) will publish the final electoral rolls and the Supreme Court will hear final arguments on the constitutional validity of the hotly debated exercise.
Since June 24, 2025, when the ECI came out with the notification to initiate the SIR of electoral rolls in Bihar ahead of its state assembly elections, opposition parties and some civil society groups have questioned the exercise that aims to revise the electoral rolls in the state in orde...