Congress leader Udit Raj on Wednesday, 6 August, questioned the sanctity of the special intensive revision (SIR) drive in Bihar and termed the voter verification process an eyewash, intended to benefit a certain party.

Udit Raj levelled startling allegations at the poll panel and alleged that fake voters were added while genuine and eligible voters were dropped from the newly prepared draft rolls. He said that this was being done to hurt and harm the prospects of the Opposition parties.

The Congress leader made the bizarre claim while speaking to IANS, but failed to corroborate his statement with any facts or evidence.

He claimed that the recent SIR drive in Bihar was a skewed exercise to create ‘fake supporters’ of the ruling dispensation and claimed that it was marked by a slew of irregularities, which included the addition of dead people in the voters’ list while striking off names of eligible voters to put the BJP in an ‘advantageous’ position.

“Eligible voters have been removed from the voter list and fake voters have been added, just like what happened in Maharashtra and Delhi,” he said.