Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Wednesday raised concerns over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, saying that several issues have emerged this time, including reports of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) dying by suicide.
Responding to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge's allegation of "vote theft", Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Thursday said that multiple pieces of evidence have emerged indicating manipulation in the electoral rolls, including large-scale additions and deletions of voters i
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday claimed that Congress leaders are saying that Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi "led to the debacle of the party" by questioning the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
"There has been a question mark over the entire election process right from the beginning. When that is the case, results will be unexpected like this. There was never a strike rate like this. Even Congress didn't have a strike rate like this in 1984, as is the case with the BJP in these
"128 seats out of the 202 won by the NDA came purely from SIR-based voter deletions. We analysed the voter deletion data published by the ECI as ordered by the Supreme Court and compared it with the victory margins in each constituency. The pattern is unmistakable: genuine, living voters
"...The list of my area has 5 lakh 40 thousand votes. If someone goes somewhere else, they are added to that area as well, but there is no deletion. They go somewhere else, but their name is not deleted from that area... Without conducting a survey, the correct things will not come out...
The Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar on Friday informed that during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) Campaign, 2025 in the state, no appeals were received by the District Magistrate regarding the addition or deletion of names in the electoral roll by the Electoral Registration Officer
The Election Commission of India on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that final electoral list in the recently-concluded Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar has been notified and most of the names added in final list are of new voters and few old voters.
The party said that they want the Election Commission (EC) to clarify the final SIR list and provide details on the 3,66,000 voters whose names were deleted, including reasons for removal.
Leader of Opposition in Lok Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took a jibe at Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and alleged that the ECI took a corrective measure for voter deletion only after he alleged "vote theft" in Aland.
Raut's reactions came two days after Rahul Gandhi's recent claims, alleging "vote theft" of approximately 6000 votes from Karnataka's Aland assembly constituency. Earlier this year, the Congress MP had alleged the deletion of around 100000 names from the Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha consti