Congress alleges deletion of voters’ names during SIR in Rajasthan

The Opposition Congress successful Rajasthan connected Monday (November 24, 2025) alleged that names of a ample fig of voters were being deleted successful each Assembly constituencies during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

This was being done successful the areas with a sizeable enactment for Congress, according to the party.

Pradesh Congress Committee president Govind Singh Dotasra said the voters with Congress ideology were being removed from electoral rolls connected the pretext of their absence, shifting of death. “In each Assembly segment, the names of 20,000 to 25,000 voters are being deleted,” helium said.

Talking to journalists astatine PCC office successful Raipur, Mr. Dotasra said the login identities of Block Level Officers (BLO) were being utilized astatine aggregate locations for “arbitrary deletions and additions”.

“We are gathering implicit accusation astir the misuse of absentee, shifted and dormant (ASD) marking. The Congress volition soon uncover the details and exposure this conspiracy.” Mr. Dotasra said.

The State Congress main said the ASD marking was precise debased successful the areas wherever the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) believes it has a beardown ballot bank. The information would beryllium disposable by the adjacent period to marque a examination betwixt the last voters’ lists and the erstwhile ones utilized successful the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, Mr. Dotasra said.

A gathering of the PCC enforcement and each District Congress Committee presidents has been convened successful Jaipur connected November 29 for carrying retired a reappraisal of the SIR exercise. Mr. Dotasra said AICC Rajasthan in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa would delegate caller tasks to the DCC presidents and the enactment would deliberate connected the strategy to show the Election Commission’s actions.

Asked astir the appointments of the party’s territory portion chiefs, Mr. Dotasra said an capable practice was being fixed to the leaders nether 50 years of property arsenic good arsenic those belonging to SC, ST, OBC and number communities. “We are complying with the Udaipur Nav Sankalp Declaration of 2022. The full squad for 50 districts successful the State volition beryllium acceptable by December-end,” helium said.