Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, on Sunday said that the 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' has become a "historic journey" and claimed it has exposed the "reality" of both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Election Commission before
"Election Commission has become 'Godi Commission' now and is working like the BJP's cell. Rahul Gandhi and I have embarked on this Yatra to save democracy, the Constitution and the right to vote. On the ground level, even in villages, EC's credibility is over," Tejashwi said.
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday slammed the Election Commission of India and the BJP, calling the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll in Bihar, an "institutionalised way" of stealing votes.
In a case from Bhagalpur district in Bihar, two women who came from Pakistan in 1956 were issued voter ID cards, and even got verified during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. However, the glitch was flagged by the Home Ministry.
The two leaders rode motorcycles during the 'Yatra', which seeks to highlight alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.
Union Minister Nityanand Rai slammed RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav for abusing PM Modi; says Modi's efforts lifted 2.5-3 crore people out of poverty in Bihar, and Tejashwi's remarks hurt the poor deeply.
The Election Commission has received documents of 98.2 per cent of electors in Bihar with eight days left in the Claims, Objections and Documents period of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in the state, the ECI said on Sunday.
BJP leader KS Duggal filed a police complaint against RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav over a social media post referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a "vote thief."