'Things to come': Mahua's post on Bangladesh's poll officer arrest sparks outrage

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) person Mahua Moitra connected Wednesday courted contention erstwhile she shared an aged photograph of the apprehension of Bangladesh’s erstwhile canvass commissioner successful an election-manipulation case, saying it was a motion of "things to come” successful an evident notation to the INDIA bloc’s allegation that the Election Commission of India (ECI) main is "colluding with the ruling BJP to rig elections".Moitra, who is besides the Lok Sabha MP, drew crisp retort from the BJP, which slammed her for speaking "like an force of the country".

Lashing retired astatine Mohua Moitra, BJP's nationalist spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said: “Mahua Moitra is simply a Member of Parliament of India, but she speaks similar an force of the country. The benignant of tweet she has posted now— is she trying to accidental that India’s ideology is similar that of Bangladesh?" "Earlier too, we saw RJD leaders saying that if they suffer the election, they volition crook the state into Bangladesh oregon Nepal, creating specified a situation. We person besides seen

Rahul Gandhi

accidental that their combat is against the Indian State,” helium told quality bureau ANI.Even Congress person Rahul Gandhi attacked the ECI-led Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workout during a gathering with AICC office-bearers from 12 states and Union Territories wherever the electoral rotation revision is nether way. He told enactment leaders that the Congress indispensable antagonistic the thrust “politically, organisationally and legally,” according to sources quoted by PTI.Rahul, the sources said, argued that portion the Election Commission is liable for maintaining close elector rolls, it appeared to beryllium shifting the load onto governmental parties.

He besides questioned however the SIR was being implemented, informing that it “could pb to the removal of morganatic voters.”Several different Congress leaders echoed his fears, reviving their acquainted “vote-chori” complaint oregon calling the SIR a “sinister effort to destruct Democracy”.Even arsenic the absorption ramps up its resistance, the Election Commission reported that it has already distributed 50.25 crore enumeration forms crossed the 12 states and UTs, covering 98.54 per cent of the 50.97 crore eligible voters.

The archetypal signifier spans Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Puducherry, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Lakshadweep.Four of these, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and West Bengal, caput to the polls successful 2026. Assam, besides acceptable for elections successful 2026, received support for a “special revision” of rolls connected Monday.The 2nd signifier of SIR began connected November 4 and volition tally until December 4.Rahul, meanwhile, has continued questioning the caller electoral outcomes. Last week, helium termed the Bihar results “surprising” and formed uncertainty connected the fairness of the process, saying the Congress and the INDIA bloc would scrutinise the result successful detail. The enactment aboriginal alleged that the verdict reflected “vote chori connected a gigantic scale, masterminded by the premier minister, the location minister, the EC”.