PATNA, July 14 -- Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's fifth visit to poll-bound Bihar this year on July 18, political atmosphere has charged up in the state after RJD leader and leader of Opposition in Bihar assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, dismissed the "alleged media claims by Election Commission sources" about detection of illegal immigrants from foreign countries in the electoral rolls during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

The EC officials had on Sunday claimed that field-level functionaries of the ECI have found "a large number of people" from Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar during house-to-house visits made for the ongoing intensive review of the voters' list in Bihar.

Addressing a press conference on Sunday, the Bihar ...