SIR new weapon for vote chori, says Rahul

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Monday said the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is a “new weapon" for "vote chori" and vowed to protect the "one person, one vote" principle by stopping "vote theft”.

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Gandhi made the remarks in a post on his WhatsApp channel while talking about his meeting with a group of people who had cast their votes in the previous Lok Sabha election but their names were deleted from the electoral rolls during the SIR exercise in Bihar.

The leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha met the group at the launch of his Vote Adhikar Yatra in Bihar's Sasaram Sunday.

In his post in Hindi along with a picture of the meeting, Gandhi said, "The SIR is anew weapon for vote theft. Coincidentally, these people standing with me in this picture are a ‘living’ proof of this theft.”

"All of them had cast their votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha election -- but by the time the Bihar Assembly polls came, their identity, their existence were erased from the democracy of India," he said.