Hyderabad, July 14, 2025 (ANI): AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi questions the Election Commission of India's role in the special intensive revision (SIR) of voter lists in Bihar. Owaisi said, ‘Election Commission (ECI) has no authority to determine citizenship, a role that belongs to the Home Ministry and SP Border.”
00:00It is very embarrassing that a constitutional body is giving or is relying on sources.
00:08Why can't a constitutional body like ECI say, come out openly and tell to the media?
00:13ECI cannot decide or determine citizenship. Who has given them the powers?
00:17Thirdly, we want to know from ECI, please give us the name and the telephone numbers of those BLOs
00:24who have found these illegal immigrants from Nepal or from Myanmar or from Bangladesh.
00:31I had called this a backdoor NRC, this SIR, which is being done in Bihar.
00:36It is very embarrassing that a constitutional body is giving or is relying on sources.
00:44Why can't a constitutional body like ECI say, come out openly and tell to the media?
00:48Why are you, who are these sources? Who are these sources? Please tell me.
00:55And who, ECI cannot decide or determine citizenship. Who has given them the powers?
01:02Thirdly, we want to know from ECI, please give us the name and the telephone numbers of those BLOs
01:08who have found these illegal immigrants from Nepal or from Myanmar or from Bangladesh.
01:15We will tell our party people, MIM party members, we will go and meet those BLOs
01:20and we will check and if possible, we will bring all those proof to them.
01:28And fourthly, that is why I had called this a backdoor NRC, this SIR, which is being done in Bihar.
01:35And in 2003, an SIR was on Bihar. Can the ECI tell us how many foreign nationals were found in 2003 SIR?
01:45Lastly, another point, these sources, these so-called sources are destroying or weakening relations of India with Nepal.
01:55There are marriages which happen, Madhesi people. You are already, our relations are not with Nepal and these sources are playing their role to spoil the relationship.
02:07Important point to remember, in July 2019, election commission has given a reply to the parliament
02:17and this reply was given by the law minister in the parliament that in 2016, 17 and 19, no foreign nationals were found.
02:26Only three were found, one in Telangana, one in Gujarat and one in West Bengal.
02:30And lastly, the summary revision which was done in Srimanchal area of Kishanganj, Araria, Purnia and Katiar.
02:42Police, election commission knows this very well.
02:46Did, was citizenship or documents, unavailability was reason?
02:52No, the reason was death of an otter, shifting of an otter or absent, not found.
02:58And everyone is talking about Srimanchal, Srimanchal.
03:03So that is why we feel that it is, it is, what is being leaked through sources is completely wrong.
03:10It is embarrassing for me as a member of parliament that a constitutional body cannot say it on record what it has to say
03:15and a constitutional body like he said cannot, who has given them the powers to determine citizenship, please tell us.
03:21This is what I have to say.
03:24Sir, you have to ask one question.
03:50I thought that they didn't want to get rid of these,
03:53that they would not want to get rid of these people's
03:56who could not want to get rid of these people.
03:59They wanted to be the one who would want to get rid of them,
04:03and they would want to get rid of them.
04:07We can't even say that we are saying that we have to say that we have to do that,
04:10We want to get rid of them.
04:12If we can't understand that we are not going to do this in order of our own
