India, June 25 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Tuesday that it will undertake a special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Bihar to weed out ineligible names, citing rapid urbanisation, frequent migration and foreign illegal immigrants as some of the motivations for the house-to-house verification exercise.

Bihar is set to go to the polls later this year. This is the first time that ECI has spoken about illegal immigrants being part of the electoral roll in the state where the last SIR was done in 2003.

The poll body also said that it will conduct a similar exercise nationwide.

"One of the fundamental pre-conditions set out in Article 326 of the Constitution is that a person is required to be an Indian ...