New Delhi, Aug. 2 -- Congress MP Pramod Tiwari on Saturday criticised the Election Commission and the BJP after the release of a draft voter list for Bihar and said that removing the names of 65 lakh people is "shocking".

As the Election Commission of India (ECI) said that 7.24 crore electors out of the total 7.89 crore in Bihar have been included in the draft list, Congress MP Tiwari claimed that people from areas where minority communities are predominant have been removed.

"If 65 lakh names, especially from those districts and areas where minority communities, backward classes, and Dalit communities are predominant, have been removed (from the voter list), then this is a very shocking figure," Pramod Tiwari told ANI.

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