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Amid the Bihar canvass debacle and its "vote chori" pitch, the Congress has called a reappraisal gathering connected November 18, 2025, of in-charges, State portion chiefs, Congress Legislature Party leaders and secretaries of 12 States and Union territories wherever Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls is underway.
A time after facing a terrible drubbing successful Bihar, wherever the NDA cruised to triumph with 202 seats against the Mahagathbandhan's 35, the Congress connected Saturday questioned the relation of the Election Commission (EC) successful the canvass process, aft its apical leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and enactment main Mallikarjun Kharge, met to sermon the dismal outcome.
A elder enactment functionary said the reappraisal gathering of AICC in-charges, Pradesh Congress Committee chiefs, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leaders, and secretaries of 12 States and Union Territories wherever the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workout is underway volition instrumentality spot astatine the Indira Bhawan connected November 18.
On Saturday (November 15, 2025), the EC said that much than 95% of the 5.99 crore electors crossed 9 states and 3 UTs person received enumeration forms nether the ongoing SIR exercise.
In its regular SIR bulletin, the canvass authorization said implicit 48.67 crore enumeration forms person been distributed successful the 12 States and UTs — Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Lakshadweep.
Among these, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, and West Bengal volition spell to polls successful 2026.
In Assam, wherever elections are besides owed successful 2026, the revision of electoral rolls volition beryllium announced separately.
Phase-II of the SIR workout began connected November 4 with the enumeration stage, and volition proceed till December 4.
On Friday (November 14, 2025), Rahul Gandhi called the Bihar canvass results astonishing and claimed that the predetermination was not just from the precise beginning.
Mr. Gandhi besides said the Congress and the INDIA bloc would behaviour an in-depth reappraisal of the outcomes.
The Congress besides claimed that the results, without a doubt, bespeak "vote chori connected a gigantic standard — masterminded by the Prime Minister, the Home Minister, the EC".
Mr. Gandhi's canvass run against the BJP successful Bihar revolved astir his "vote chori"(vote theft) allegations.
