India, July 6 -- The Congress on Sunday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of conspiring with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to disenfranchise voters in Bihar while criticising the Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls (SIR) being carried out in the poll-bound state.

Party president Mallikarjun Kharge said, "With the cooperation of the Election Commission, the master plan that BJP had devised to deprive crores of people in Bihar of their voting rights now seems to be ensnaring the BJP itself. Forcibly depriving the poor, weak, deprived, Dalit, oppressed, and backward people of their voting rights is the very conspiracy of BJP-RSS."

The SIR in Bihar is being carried out ahead of the state elections, slated for Octob...