NEW DELHI/PATNA, Oct. 29 -- Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor was on Tuesday served with a notice over his name being reportedly registered as a voter in his home state Bihar, as well as adjoining West Bengal. However, the former political strategist stuck to his guns, asserting that the onus was on EC, which "claims to have purified electoral rolls in Bihar through SIR", to have done the needful in his case. "I am a voter from the Kargahar Assembly constituency since 2019. For two years, when I was in Kolkata, I had made a voter ID card there. Since 2021, my voter ID has been for the Kargahar Assembly constituency. If the ECI is saying that my name is enrolled as an elector in other places as well, then why are they troubling everyone by carrying out the SIR? I have nothing to do with the notice issued by the ECI...," he said. According to officials, the returning officer of Bihar's Kargahar assembly constituency sent the notice on Tuesday after reports suggested that Kishor's name appears in the electoral rolls of both states. "According to a news item published on 28.10.2025, your name is registered in the electoral rolls of Bihar and West Bengal. Therefore, you should present your side within three days regarding the entry of your name in more than one constituency," the communication said. In West Bengal, the political strategist-turned-politician is registered as a voter in the Bhabanipur assembly constituency - the sitting seat of chief minister Mamata Banerjee - which comes under the Kolkata Dakshin parliamentary constituency. Kishor's address is mentioned as 121 Kalighat Road, where the office of ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) is located in Bhabanipur. Kishor had worked as a key political consultant for the TMC during the 2021 West Bengal assembly polls. According to the communication, Kishor is registered as a voter in the Kargahar assembly segment under the Sasaram parliamentary constituency in Rohtas district of Bihar, with Madhya Vidyalaya, Konar listed as his polling station. Jan Suraaj spokesperson, Syed Masihuddin said that when Kishor was in West Bengal he had got enrolled there as voter and when he came to Bihar, he applied for registration as voter here and applied for deletion in West Bengal. "We don't know why his request for deletion was not taken up for so long and now just before election, it has surfaced. If SIR is so well done, it should have detected long ago," he added. According to officials, EC issues such notices when duplicate entries are detected during the verification process. Individuals are required to respond within a prescribed time before any corrective action is taken, including deletion of duplicate entries from the rolls. In recent months, the EC had issued similar notices to several political leaders over discrepancies in voter registration. In August this year, the poll body issued a notice to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav and asked him to surrender one of his Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPICs) after discrepancies were found in the numbers he presented publicly. The EC stated that one of the EPIC numbers shown by Yadav did not match its records and sought clarification. EC also issued a notice to Bihar deputy chief minister Vijay Kumar Sinha after Tejashwi Yadav alleged that the BJP leader held two voter IDs. The commission directed Sinha to provide an explanation and confirm his correct registration details. Sinha had already submitted his reply to the EC....