Bihar Assembly Elections 2025: BJP urges EC to verify identity of burqa-clad voters

New Delhi, 4/10: A controversy broke out after Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal on Saturday urged the Election Commission of India to put in place a system to match the faces of burqa-clad women with their voter ID cards, to ensure that only genuine voter cast their battle.

Jaiswal told reporters that they have asked the EC to hold the elections in one or two phases instead of spreading them out. “It is also important that the identity of voters, particularly burqa-clad women, be verified against their EPIC cards “