Election Roll Purges and Voter Disenfranchisement in India: Constitutional Rights, Due Process, and Inclusion in Bihar’s 2025 Special Intensive Revision

Since the 2025 Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the Bihar electoral records, which purportedly led to the removal of roughly 65 lakh names, there have been contentious debates concerning voter disenfranchisement and constitutional faithfulness. The roll-cleaning exercise, which was justified by the Election Commission of India as a necessary accuracy measure, specifically violates the rights of the franchise under Article 326, equality under Article 14, and procedural fairness implicated by the constitutional ethos of Article 21. By examining institutional conduct, contested political and media narratives (including high-profile incidents like the Tejashwi Yadav’s name controversy ), and doctrinal legal analysis of statutory prescriptions, the study places Bihar's SIR within larger conflicts between electoral integrity and exclusion.