CPI passes resolution calling for EC to withdraw electoral roll revision in Bihar

The unanimous resolution – which echoes the concerns of the Opposition INDIA bloc – was passed at a meeting of the CPI’s National Council held in New Delhi from July 1 to 3.

“The Opposition parties had gone to the EC and urged it to withdraw the intensive voter list revision exercise, as it can deny a large number of voters their right to vote. We called upon the EC to hold the Bihar polls on the basis of the voter list of 2024 Lok Sabha polls, but add the new voters who had turned 18-plus between then and now,” party general secretary D Raja told The Indian Express.

At the National Council meeting, Raja presented the draft political resolution that will be presented before the Party Congress to be held in Chandigarh from September 21 to 25. The meeting was presided by Rama Krushna Panda, secretary of the CPI National Council.

The draft political resolution also supported the July 9 national strike called by Central Trade Unions, and supported by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha and agricultural workers’ organisations.

The CPI National Council also demanded adequate compensation for those who have lost crops and property due to the heavy rains in Himachal Pradesh, and expressed concern that the India-US trade deal would “devastate India’s farmers, destabilise the financial sector, and exploit the nation’s youth and erode the sovereignty of India”.

“Opening of the agriculture and dairy sector to US corporations will be a death warrant to Indian farmers,” a party statement said. “Already unprecedented imports of oilseed and soya products has resulted in collapsing prices of soybean and cotton, giving rise to farmers suicides.”