NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal on Saturday stepped up the attack against Election Commission‘s special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar by asking people to “refuse” to show any documents to the officials.Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi, during her address on the occasion of party’s 28th foundation day, accused the Centre of hatching a conspiracy to deprive the poor voters their voting rights.“Governments at the Centre and in the state have put the country up for sale. They have now hatched a conspiracy to deprive the poor of their voting rights with the Bihar assembly elections less than three months away,” Rabri said.“People from across the state are present here. I advise them not to show any documents other than their voter ID cards. Refuse when asked to do so,” she added.She further claimed that the exercise is unjustified, saying “The authorities want the people to show the birth certificates of their parents. How will a person, who might have lost all his family members long back, come up with such a proof of identity?”“The intensive revision was last held more than 20 years ago. For 11 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been in power, and no need was felt for the exercise until now and suddenly they want to complete it in a month,” she added.Meanwhile, chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar claimed that special intensive revision is a general practice to update the voter list before every election as a part of the law.CEC Kumar said opposition parties themselves in the past have complained about issues pertaining to the voter list.“As part of the law, before every election, the voter list needs to be updated. A detailed investigation of the voter list and all voter details was not conducted after January 1, 2003. This is supposed to be a general practice,” Kumar said.“Nearly every political party complained about issues in the authenticity of the voter list, and demanded updates. More than 1 lakh booth-level officers are working on it with the support of all political parties. No ineligible person will be able to make it into this list,” he added.This comes after the poll body has taken up the mantle of weeding out foreign illegal migrants from the voting list of six states, starting from Bihar.However, the opposition has caste apprehension over the timing of the review and said that the last Intensive Revision conducted for Bihar in 2003 took place well ahead of the 2004 Lok Sabha polls and the 2005 assembly polls, which gave reasonable time for electors to seek legal remedies for addition or deletion.According to the poll body, it is part of its crackdown on illegal immigrants from countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.The poll panel reminded the constitutional provision that says only Indian citizens can vote. “The Constitution of India is supreme. All citizens, political parties, and the Election Commission of India follow the Constitution,” EC said in a statement.The EC said the special revision has already started successfully in Bihar for verifying the eligibility of each elector with “full participation” of all political parties.The poll panel already has nearly 78,000 booth-level officers (BLOs) and is appointing over 20,000 more for new polling stations, it said.More than one lakh volunteers will be assisting genuine electors, particularly the old, sick, persons with disabilities, poor, and other vulnerable groups during the special intensive revision.Out of the existing 7,89,69,844 electors, 4.96 crore electors, whose names are already in the last intensive revision of the Electoral Roll on January 1, 2003, have to “simply verify so, fill the Enumeration Form and submit it.”