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Rahul and Kharge during a gathering with elder Congress leaders from 12 states and national territories wherever the SIR of electoral rolls is underway
NEW DELHI: Congress person connected Tuesday Rahul Gandhi reportedly raised concerns astir the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process during a gathering with AICC office-bearers from 12 states and Union Territories wherever electoral rotation revision is ongoing.
He emphasised that the enactment needs to antagonistic this 'politically, organisationally and legally, arsenic per sources, quoted by PTI. Rahul noted that portion the Election Commission should guarantee close electoral rolls, it appeared to beryllium shifting work to governmental parties, according to the PTI sources. He questioned the implementation of the procedure, alleging it could pb to the removal of morganatic voters.Other Congress leaders besides expressed their absorption to SIR, invoking their 'vote-chori' assertion again oregon calling it a 'sinister effort to destruct Democracy".The reappraisal gathering included Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Gandhi, and AICC wide caput K C Venugopal, on with authorities portion chiefs, CLP leaders and secretaries from the regions undergoing Special Intensive Revision.Congress has intensified its 'vote chori' stance, criticising the Election Commission's handling of the SIR process arsenic "deeply disappointing" and called for the committee to beryllium its independency from BJP influence.
Kharge, who led the meeting, accused the BJP of utilizing the process arsenic a instrumentality for "vote chori". He said connected X, "We held a broad strategy reappraisal with AICC wide secretaries, AICC in-charges, PCCs, CLPs and AICC secretaries from the states/UTs wherever the SIR process is underway. The
Congress Party
is unequivocally committed to safeguarding the integrity of the electoral rolls."AICC wide secretary, organisation, K C Venugopal besides took jab astatine EC, with regards to SIR.
"We are going to the streets. During the archetypal week of December, the Congress enactment is organising a monolithic rally successful Ramleela Maidan with lakhs of radical attending it," helium told reporters, adding that the Congress volition exposure the Election Commission by organising the protestation event, arsenic quoted by PTI.Venugopal further said portion purification of electoral rolls is an undeniably indispensable objective, it indispensable beryllium carried retired successful a bona fide manner."The ECI's behaviour frankincense acold has been to further the BJP's 'vote chori' agenda, mounting speech its Constitutional work of impartiality. We volition relentlessly combat against their attempts to manipulate elector rolls done unfair deletions oregon the insertion of bogus voters to make abstraction for the BJP to transportation retired its nefarious activities," helium said connected X."It is our ideology astatine stake, and we volition basal up to each effort - large oregon tiny - that threatens our Constitutional framework," helium further claimed.
He said that the wide feeling of the Pradesh Congress Committees was that the Election Commission was purposefully trying to delete votes of immoderate sections of the society. "The plan of the SIR itself is to delete targeted votes. This is what we experienced successful Bihar besides and present they are going to commencement it successful 12 states," helium said, adding they announced a antithetic 'Special Revision' for Assam.
"This is simply a sinister effort by the Election Commission to destruct ideology successful this country.
It is wholly unethical and wholly undemocratic," helium alleged, arsenic quoted by PTI.Following their important decision successful Bihar, wherever the NDA secured 202 seats compared to Mahagathbandhan's 35, the Congress questioned the Election Commission's behaviour during the electoral process. During his Bihar run also, Gandhi consistently raised the allegations of "vote chori".As the absorption stays steadfast connected opposing SIR, the Election Commission reported that implicit 50.25 crore enumeration forms person been distributed crossed the 12 states and UTs, reaching 98.54 per cent of the 50.97 crore eligible voters.The archetypal signifier of the process includes regions specified as- Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Puducherry, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Lakshadweep.Four of these regions - Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and West Bengal - volition clasp elections successful 2026. Assam, besides owed for elections successful 2026, received support for a 'special revision' of electoral rolls connected Monday.The 2nd signifier of SIR began connected November 4 and continues until December 4.Last week, Rahul described the Bihar results arsenic "surprising" and questioned the election's fairness. He indicated that the Congress and INDIA bloc would analyse the results thoroughly.The enactment alleged that the results demonstrated "vote chori connected a gigantic standard -- masterminded by the premier minister, the location minister, the EC".
