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Days after the final electoral rolls were published in Bihar, the Congress on Sunday launched a fresh attack on the Election Commission, claiming that the names of about 23 lakh women have been removed from the voter list, and the bulk of them were from 59 assembly seats where a "close contest" was witnessed in the 2020 elections.

Reiterating the "vote chori" allegations against the poll body, the grand old party also asked if the votes cast by these women in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections were also "fraudulent" and whether MPs elected on "fake votes" helped form the government.

Hitting out at the poll body, Alka Lamba, the All India Mahila Congress chief, alleged that it has committed a massive fraud in the name of SIR "at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah".

"There are approximately 3.5 crore women voters in Bihar, but the names of approximately 23 lakh women have been removed from the voters' list," Lanba claimed at a press conference at the Congress headquarters in Delhi.

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Lamba added that these women will not be able to vote in the upcoming assembly elections and the Congress believes it to be against the Constitution.

Which assemblies is Congress talking about?

The six districts in Bihar from where the names of the maximum number of women have been removed from the voters' list are Gopalganj, Saran, Begusarai, Samastipur, Bhojpur, and Purnea," she claimed.

Lamba said that these six districts comprise about 60 assembly seats. "If we look at the 2020 assembly election data, the INDIA bloc parties won 25 seats here while the NDA bagged 34 and a close contest was witnessed," Lamba said. "Now, the Election Commission has committed massive fraud in these very seats in the name of SIR," she alleged.

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Lamba further claimed that the names of 22.7 lakh female voters have been deleted, while the names of approximately 15 lakh male voters have been removed from the electoral roll.

(With PTI Inputs)