New Delhi, 9 December (H.S.): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from West Champaran, Sanjay Jaiswal, on Tuesday initiated the discussion on electoral reforms in the Lok Sabha, asserting that the country “is not meant for Rohingyas and Bangladeshis,” and stressed the need for implementing the Summary Intensive Revision (SIR) process to maintain the integrity of the electoral rolls.

Supporting the ongoing voter list verification exercise under the SIR process, Jaiswal claimed that in Bihar alone, around 35 lakh people failed to submit voter verification forms, suggesting that a significant number among them could be infiltrators.

“The SIR process is vital to ensure that only genuine citizens remain on the electoral rolls,” he emphasized.Welcoming the government’s “One Nation, One Election” initiative, the BJP MP said the proposal would not benefit his party politically, as critics often suggest. “The opposition may think simultaneous elections favour the BJP, but the truth is quite the opposite.

The BJP performs well even in separate state elections, as our organization continuously works to secure the people’s mandate,” he said.

Defending the sincerity of the government’s leadership, Jaiswal remarked, “Our Home Minister has not taken a single foreign trip, and the Prime Minister hasn’t taken a day off. We dedicate ourselves fully to every election, while opposition leaders often spend their time vacationing.”

Taking a dig at the Congress, Jaiswal said the party failed to find any meaningful issue to challenge 20 years of NDA governance in Bihar and instead kept targeting the SIR process without offering alternatives. “With confusion and negativity as their strategy, such elections can never be won—and when defeat comes, they blame others,” he stated.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar