NEW DELHI: Chief of opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched a pointy assault on the BJP and the Election Fee of India (ECI), alleging that the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has been “became a weapon to dismantle the constitutional proper” to vote. He additional alleged that the EC “is now not democracy’s guardian however chief confederate on this vote theft conspiracy.““Wherever there’s SIR, there’s vote theft. What’s being performed in Gujarat within the title of SIR isn’t any type of administrative course of, it’s a well-planned, organised, and strategic vote chori,” he mentioned in a submit in Hindi on X.
The Congress chief mentioned that SIR undermines the precept of “one individual, one vote” and permits the BJP, reasonably than voters, to resolve who stays in energy.“SIR has been became a weapon to dismantle the constitutional proper to ‘one individual, one vote’—in order that it’s not the individuals, however the BJP, who resolve who stays in energy,” Rahul alleged.“And the gravest fact is that the Election Fee is now not democracy’s guardian; it’s change into the chief confederate on this vote-theft conspiracy,” he added.Rahul claimed that votes had been “selectively faraway from particular communities and cubicles” that assist the Congress. “Wherever the BJP sees a possible defeat, voters are merely made to vanish from the system,” he mentioned.The Congress chief alleged {that a} comparable sample had been seen earlier. “This identical sample was seen in Aland. The identical factor occurred in Rajura. And now the identical blueprint is being carried out in Gujarat, Rajasthan, and each state the place SIR has been imposed,” he mentioned.His remarks got here after the Gujarat Congress alleged large-scale manipulation throughout the SIR course of within the state. In a submit on X, the occasion claimed that, “Election rigging means the theft of your voting rights, and this new sport has come to gentle in Gujarat. In keeping with the foundations, the Election Fee, after the SIR, launched the draft record and started accepting objections, setting January 18 as the ultimate date. Solely a handful of objections had been obtained till January 15, however the true sport started afterward. Underneath a conspiracy, thousands and thousands of objections (Kind 7) had been abruptly submitted.“The state Congress additional alleged that when the principle opposition occasion sought particulars of the objections from the Election Fee, it obtained no response. “It’s because the Election Fee has mortgaged each its duty and accountability to the ruling occasion,” the state unit claimed.
