India, Oct. 11 -- With just days to go before the Bihar assembly election 2025 gets underway, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi came out strongly against the Election Commission's handling of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls, accusing the panel of overstepping its mandate by veering into citizenship verification.

According to Owaisi, verifying citizenship is the responsibility of the Union Home Ministry, not the Election Commission of India.

In Bihar, a controversy is brewing over the SIR, a process that has sparked allegations of rushed deletions and citizenship profiling.

"So, there was so much pressure on the BLOs (booth level officers)), and the dangerous thing is that they wrote in the notification that if they go to...