Bihar election results: Congress' Udit Raj blames SIR for ruling NDA’s lead

As early trends indicated a lead for the ruling NDA in the Bihar Assembly elections, Congress leader Udit Raj accused the Election Commission and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists of undermining democracy and affecting his party’s performance.

Speaking to ANI in Patna, Udit Raj argued that the election results reflect the SIR process rather than a BJP-JD(U) victory.

He said, "SIR is leading. I won't say that this victory is of the BJP-JD(U); this is a victory of the Election Commission, of SIR. After the voter list was sanitised, lakhs of discrepancies were pointed out, but the EC didn't respond to even one. When objections were being raised, 89 lakh objections were raised. Still, EC said that nobody is raising any complaint. When they stoop to this level of cheating, what can we say? This is murder of democracy..."

#WATCH | As NDA crosses the majority mark in #BiharElections, Congress leader Udit Raj says, "SIR is leading. I won't say that this victory is of the BJP-JD(U); this is a victory of the Election Commission, of SIR. After the voter list was sanitised, lakhs of discrepancies were… pic.twitter.com/bGm7GRedXj

— ANI (@ANI) November 14, 2025

He further criticised the deletion of opposition voters’ names, saying, "If you delete the names of Opposition voters and send back thousands of voters despite them having digital slips...there was a wave of change in Bihar...BJP leaders were chased away by people at several locations. So, how are they winning? I feel this is a victory of SIR."

Earlier, Udit Raj had posted on X, "SIR is moving towards victory (SIR jeet ki taraf badh rahi hai)."

SIR जीत की तरफ़ बढ़ रही है ।

— Dr. Udit Raj (@Dr_Uditraj) November 14, 2025

This election marks the first assembly poll in India in two decades conducted after a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, a process Udit Raj claims has skewed the outcome.