3 min learnNew DelhiUp to date: Sep 1, 2026 07:23 PM IST
With 2.07 crore of 9.78 crore electors in Maharashtra being deleted in draft rolls throughout Particular Intensive Revisions (SIR), Chief of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday stated that the BJP and the “Vote Chori Aayog” maintain altering their techniques, and they’ll proceed to take action for “BJP’s victory at any value”.
“The BJP and the ‘Vote Chori Aayog’ maintain altering their techniques, and they’ll proceed to take action — the objective stays only one: BJP’s victory at any value, and the top of India’s democracy,” Gandhi stated in a submit in Hindi on X.
Gandhi, who has repeatedly focused the Election Fee during the last two years, referred to the Maharashtra Meeting and Lok Sabha elections in 2024, saying, “Maharashtra 2024 — Abruptly, 3.9 million new voters have been added between the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections. I stated it then, and I say it right this moment: This was vote theft.”
भाजपा और ‘वोट चोरी आयोग’ के तरीके बदलते रहते हैं, और बदलते रहेंगे – मकसद बस एक ही है: किसी भी क़ीमत पर BJP की जीत, और भारत के लोकतंत्र का अंत।
महाराष्ट्र 2024 – लोकसभा और विधानसभा चुनाव के बीच अचानक 39 लाख नए वोटर जुड़ गए। मैंने तब भी कहा था, आज भी कहता हूँ: यह वोट चोरी थी।…
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) September 1, 2026
Then he talked about West Bengal SIR earlier than the Meeting polls, which noticed BJP storming to energy. “Of the names struck off within the SIR, 91% needed to be reinstated after appeals. Which means 9 out of each 10 names have been wrongly deleted, and added again solely after the election. I stated it then, and I say it right this moment: This was vote theft,” he stated.
Gandhi stated that now in Maharashtra, “2.07 crore voters have been faraway from the draft listing — that’s each fifth voter. Lok Sabha 2024: 9.29 crore; Vidhan Sabha 2024: 9.7 crore; SIR 2026: 7.78 crore… Which listing was appropriate?”
Hitting out on the BJP, he stated, “For a authorities constructed on vote theft, the persons are not essential — that’s why this BJP neither listens to the individuals nor obeys their command.”
Congress president and Chief of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, stated that “the place it fits the BJP, voters are added. The place it doesn’t, votes are break up to perpetrate vote theft”. “The BJP’s conspiracy to hole out Indian democracy by stealing votes is popping out into the open,” stated Kharge. “As a substitute of appearing because the guardian of truthful elections, the Election Fee is functioning just like the ‘Save BJP’s Chair Fee’,” he stated.
“The nation is now uniting towards vote theft… The nation has understood the BJP’s conspiracy. The thief has been caught… Punishment will certainly be meted out for holding democracy captive,” Kharge stated in a submit on X.
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After referring to draft rolls in Maharashtra and Bengal, Kharge stated that the “identical recreation is being repeated in Delhi. Voters have been elevated earlier than the Meeting elections, then names of 4.756 million voters vanished from the draft listing, and preparations are underway to concern notices to three.3 million different voters.”
Based on the draft electoral rolls revealed Monday, round 47.56 lakh of 1.45 crore voters have been eliminated. At 33%, it’s the “highest share” of deletions on the draft stage when in comparison with different states/UTs.
After the draft rolls have been revealed Monday, electors in Maharashtra complained of difficulties accessing and looking the rolls on-line. The Election Fee stated that the name-search facility was nonetheless being labored on and could be accessible by Tuesday night or Wednesday.
