When Bihar deleted 65 lakh voters, NDA seats saw heaviest cuts
In 190 seats, the SIR deletions are higher than the 2020 poll victory margins.
When the Election Commission’s draft voter rolls in Bihar deleted 65 lakh voters, the opposition parties cried foul and termed it “vote theft”. But do mass deletions imply a benefit to the BJP-led alliance?
See the math.
Of Bihar’s 243 assembly seats, 64 saw the highest deletions – more than 30,000 each. But it is the NDA that holds most of these seats: a total of 41.
These include 17 won by the BJP, 23 by the JD(U), and one by the HAM(S). This is nearly double the number of such seats won by the INDIA bloc.
This is just a glimpse into a larger pattern. Of Bihar’s 243 seats, the gap between NDA and INDIA bloc decreases as the deletions decrease. For example, in seats where deletions range from 10,000 to 30,000, the NDA holds 86 seats, nearly the same as the 87 won by the INDIA bloc.
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