From accusation to validation? Rahul Gandhi’s claims mirror ECI’s ‘SIR’ objectives

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday presented what he claimed was concrete evidence of the Election Commission of India's (ECI) alleged collusion with the BJP to manipulate voter rolls and "steal votes" during the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka.

However, his highlighting of large-scale irregularities in the voter list is now being seen as indirect validation of the ECI's ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar-an exercise aimed at ensuring that no eligible voter is excluded and no ineligible voter is included.

Political observers note that the very issues Gandhi flagged in Karnataka are precisely what the SIR campaign seeks to rectify.

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey's post on X positions Rahul Gandhi's press conference as not only a political misfire but a paradox.

He sarcastically refers to Gandhi's accusations as a "fizzled nuclear test" while highlighting that Congress, perhaps inadvertently, endorsed the Election Commission's SIR initiative in Bihar. This campaign aims to sanitise the voter rolls by removing duplicate, ineligible, or displaced voters, issues that Gandhi himself claims are distorting the democratic process. (IANS)

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