Despite the Election Commission's specific invitation to party heads for a meeting on Bihar's electoral roll revision, many parties, including Congress, DMK, and TMC, did not send confirmations or their designated leaders. Congress initially arrived with a larger delegation but adhered to the two-person limit, while only CPI and CPI(ML) Liberation had their heads present.
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