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Soon aft the Election Commission of India (ECI) connected Monday (October 27, 2025) announced holding Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls successful 12 States, the Congress questioned the exercise, and said the canvass body's intentions and credibility were nether suspicion arsenic neither the voters nor the absorption were satisfied with it.
In a video connection posted connected X, Congress' media and publicity caput Pawan Khera said, "We person not yet received answers to the questions related to the SIR conducted successful Bihar. The concern was specified that the Supreme Court had to measurement successful respective times to rectify the SIR successful Bihar.
"The intentions of the Election Commission and the BJP, which has made the ECI its puppet, regarding Bihar's SIR person already travel to airy earlier the full country.
"Whenever SIR happens, Election Commission employees spell to each house, adhd caller voters, and delete those who request to beryllium deleted."
“But not adjacent a singe elector has been added successful Bihar, whereas 65 lakh votes person been deleted arsenic portion of the SIR exercise, which raises respective questions,” Mr. Khera said.
“Now they (ECI) are repeating the workout successful 12 States,” Mr. Khera said.
The Congress person besides said that pursuing the revelation of 'vote theft' successful the Aland Assembly constituency successful Karnataka by Rahul Gandhi, the SIT said that a centralised cognition was being carried retired to onslaught names from the elector list.
"We volition travel to cognize astir the details of this aft the SIT probe is implicit successful Karnataka," helium said.
"Amid each this, conducting the SIR by specified an Election Commission, whose credibility and volition are nether suspicion, does not look right. Clearly, neither the people, nor the Opposition oregon the voters are satisfied," Mr. Khera alleged successful the video message.
The Congress besides alleged connected its X grip that assorted cases and methods of "vote theft" are coming to airy crossed the country, with votes being deliberately added successful immoderate places, portion successful others, they are being cut.
"The Election Commission should person responded to these cases. It should person investigated them, but instead, the Election Commission got progressive successful the crippled of 'vote theft' itself.
"The SIR to beryllium conducted successful 12 States is simply a conspiracy against democracy. It is simply a crippled to snatch distant the rights of the people," the Congress said.
In a station connected X, Mr. Khera besides asked whether Bihar has been turned into a "laboratory for murdering ideology done SIR".
"In the 12 States wherever SIR has been announced, volition its guidelines beryllium antithetic from those of the 2003 SIR," helium asked.
"Is this circular of SIR besides conscionable for vote-cutting, due to the fact that successful Bihar, the Election Commission has not taken immoderate steps towards adding caller voters, portion 6.5 cardinal votes person been cut," Mr. Khera said successful his station successful Hindi.
The Election Commission of India volition behaviour Phase-2 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful 12 states and Union territories, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar announced astatine a presser connected Monday (October 27, 2025).
The States and Union Territories are — Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
