Lakhs of voters may be excluded from electoral rolls in Rajasthan: Congress

Lakhs of voters, particularly those who enactment the Congress, whitethorn beryllium excluded from the electoral rolls successful Rajasthan during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, the Opposition enactment said present connected Saturday (November 29, 2025). The Congress alleged that the deletion of voters’ names was being carried retired to springiness “electoral advantage” to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (RPCC) held an extended strategy gathering successful Jaipur to sermon the SIR process and reappraisal the preparations for the party’s mega rally successful Delhi connected December 14 against alleged “vote theft”. Congress leaders discussed the district-wise turnout plans for the rally, and said implicit 50,000 enactment workers from the State would enactment successful the rally.

Internal assessments had indicated that the names of 25 lakh voters could beryllium struck disconnected arsenic the Election Commission of India (EC) had marked implicit 27 lakh elector forms arsenic uncollected, RPCC president Govind Singh Dotasra said. “There are implicit 40 Assembly segments wherever 25,000 to 35,000 elector forms person not been collected.” Mr. Dotasra said.

The State Congress main said the Opposition enactment would not let the BJP to win successful its designs to omit the voters’ names successful the Congress strongholds “in collusion with the Election Commission”. He called upon the District Congress Committee chiefs to personally way each polling booth and guarantee that nary eligible elector was removed from the lists.

Senior enactment leaders, including All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge for Rajasthan Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, erstwhile Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, AICC wide caput Sachin Pilot, and the Leader of Opposition successful the Rajasthan Assembly Tika Ram Jully, attended the closed doorway meeting. Instructions were issued to booth-level agents to intensify the verification of voters marked arsenic ‘shifted’, ‘absent’, oregon ‘dead’.

Mr. Pilot said the elections would go meaningless if poor, Dalit, tribal and aged voters were disenfranchised successful the SIR exercise. Mr. Randhawa said the Congress, which had led the Independence movement, would combat a large conflict to escaped the federation from the BJP’s “dictatorial rule”.

Mr. Gehlot said the country’s contiguous governmental clime demanded a corporate conflict to safeguard antiauthoritarian institutions. “The SIR has been hastily initiated successful Rajasthan and the clip allotted [for the exercise] is excessively short. Only 2 months person been given, portion the process requires 4 to six months,” Mr. Gehlot told journalists aft the gathering ended.

The Congress enactment asked the territory units to finalise question plans successful the adjacent 3 days for the participants successful the rally to beryllium held astatine Ramlila Maidan successful Delhi.