The Congress on Monday accused the Election Commission of colluding with the Modi government to carry out a “game of vote chori (voter theft)” across 12 states under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The party alleged that after Bihar’s revision drive, which it claimed led to the deletion of 69 lakh names, the same “exercise in voter manipulation” was now being expanded nationwide. Soon after the Election Commission on Monday announced holding Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in 12 states, the Congress questioned the exercise, and said the poll body’s intentions and credibility were under suspicion as neither the voters nor the opposition were satisfied with it.In a video message posted on X, Congress’ media and publicity head Pawan Khera said, “We have not yet received answers to the questions related to the SIR conducted in Bihar. The situation was such that the Supreme Court had to step in several times to rectify the SIR in Bihar.
“The intentions of the Election Commission and the BJP, which has made the EC its puppet, regarding Bihar’s SIR have already come to light before the entire country.
“Whenever SIR happens, Election Commission employees go to every house, add new voters, and delete those who need to be deleted.” But not even a singe voter has been added in Bihar, whereas 65 lakh votes have been deleted as part of the SIR exercise, which raises several questions, Khera said.
Now they (EC) are repeating the exercise in 12 states, Khera said.
The Congress leader also said that following the revelation of ‘vote theft’ in the Aland Assembly constituency in Karnataka by Rahul Gandhi, the SIT said that a centralised operation was being carried out to strike names from the voter list.