A complaint was filed on Monday in Patna’s Digha police station against Bihar leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav for possessing two voter cards with different numbers. The police complaint has been filed by advocate Rajiv Ranjan. However, an FIR is yet to be registered on the complaint.

This comes after former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav’s claims that his name was missing from Bihar’s draft electoral rolls and that his original EPIC number had been changed. He claimed his name was missing from the draft electoral rolls in Bihar, presenting an EPIC number, RAB2916120, during a press conference on Saturday.

The Election Commission of India has refuted this claim, stating his name was indeed present in the draft rolls under the EPIC number RAB0456228, which he had also used in his 2020 election affidavit. Reacting to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader’s allegations, the Election Commission has also sent a notice to him saying that a voter ID he showed in a press conference on Saturday, claiming that he was not included in the voter list, was not officially issued.

The ECI further stated that the EPIC number Tejashwi Yadav had presented (RAB2916120) was not officially issued and asked him to provide the original EPIC card for investigation. The commission has stated that Tejashwi Yadav was indeed listed at serial number 416 of polling station number 204 at Patna’s Bihar Animal Sciences University.

SIR in Bihar has “exposed the whole game” of RJD: BJP

Following Tejashwi’s allegation after the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Bharatiya Janata Party has alleged that a massive electoral roll tampering conspiracy is going on in Bihar ahead of the assembly elections, which is being led by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). The BJP has accused the former deputy chief minister and RJD workers of possessing multiple voter ID cards, which is a criminal offence.

BJP leader Sambit Patra claimed that the ECI’s exercise to clean the electoral roll (SIR) in Bihar has “exposed the whole game” of the RJD.

Patra said at a press conference on Sunday, “He cried that his name was not there in the electoral roll, so could he take part in the elections in Bihar?… After that, the EC and Patna DM revealed the truth. They said that Tejashwi Yadav’s name and EPIC number are present, and his name has not been cut from the electoral roll published after the SIR.”

“The EC further said that the EPIC number, which placed his name in the electoral roll at serial number 416, is the same as the one he used in his nomination papers during the 2020 elections. This means he had two EPIC numbers. Did he have two voter IDs?” he asked.

Reacting on Yadav’s allegations, Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor told ANI, “Tejashwi Yadav has no issues to talk about.”

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