The results of the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar’s electoral rolls are getting “curiouser and curiouser”, as Alice exclaimed in Wonderland. But before getting to the meat of it, we must overlook the first curious fact, that SIR should happen so close to an election in one of the bellwether states of the Hindi belt. One of the country’s biggest states had completed an updated voters’ list in January 2025 but the commiss