India, Jan. 22 -- Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Wednesday cited the 2025 Bihar assembly polls as an illustration of how electoral roll management and poll conduct form the core of democratic credibility, as India hosted a three-day international conference on democracy and election management and assumed a leadership role in a key global democracy body. Speaking at the inaugural session of the EC's International Conference on Democracy and Election Management, Kumar said the Bihar polls demonstrated the level of administrative precision required of election management bodies in India and elsewhere. "The first step was purification of the electoral rolls, including eligible electors," Kumar said. "Under electoral laws, there is a provision for the elector of any Assembly segment to file appeals so that no wrong name gets included and no right name gets excluded. Out of 75 million electors, the number of appeals were zero." The conference, Kumar said, had been designed to examine contemporary electoral challenges in detail....