Patna, June 29 -- A day after the INDIA bloc alleged that the intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar was being conducted to "help" the BJP in the Assembly elections due later this year, NDA partners in the State claimed that the Mahagathbandhan was "scared of losing the polls".
Union ministers Chirag Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi, both of whom spoke to journalists here separately, claimed that the RJD-Congress-Left combine was trying to come up with an "excuse" for performing poorly in the elections.
Paswan, who heads the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), said, "The Representation of People Act, 1950, stipulates that such revision of electoral rolls be undertaken from time to time. This is to ensure transparency and remove anomalies ...