PURNIA, June 27 -- The special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls launched by the Election Commission of India (ECI) with an aim get rid of fraudulent and fake voters has snowballed into a political controversy in Bihar, especially in the Seemanchal region. Seemanchal, which borders West Bengal, is alleged to have "illegal Bangladeshis" that the ECI seeks to chuck out from voting lists. The ECI has directed all district magistrates (DMs) in Bihar to undertake the house-to-house verification exercise to weed out ineligible (ghost) voters, citing various reasons including inclusion of the names of illegal immigrants in the electoral rolls. Purnia DM, Anshul Kumar, while interacting with reporters on Wednesday, said, "The house-to-house verification will be carried out from June 25 to July 25. Later objections and complaints, if any, would be disposed of till July 8 and the draft would be published on August 1." People aware of the matter requesting anonymity claimed that the SIR exercise, if conducted properly in Seemanchal districts, "a large number of people will lose their voting rights as they will hardly be able to show the documents to prove their citizenship." "Their documents need to be scrutinised properly as they are illegal immigrants living here with fake documents," one of the persons said. On June 7, Kishanganj police busted an infiltration racket and arrested one person. During the probe, police found fake documents were allegedly sold to infiltrators coming from Bangladesh for Rs. 10,000 to Rs.20,000....