India, July 28 -- The second phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the Bihar electoral roll will begin on August 1 once the Election Commission of India (ECI) publishes the draft document. The number of enumeration forms received for SIR suggests a fall of 6.5 million from the number of registered voters in Bihar as on June 24, the day before ECI launched the exercise, and also lower than the number of registered voters before the 2024 general election and even the 2020 assembly election. This number may fall further as the forms are scrutinised and the incomplete ones rejected. Except during the electoral roll revision in 2005, Bihar has never seen a decline in the voting population: The decline is intriguing considering the s...