“Between September 15 and October 15, a signature campaign will be run to save the right to vote and ensure people’s participation,” Kumar said while asserting that the whole INDIA bloc is together on this.The Congress has also launched a web portal for people to register and demand accountability from the poll panel against what it called “vote chori,” and express support for the demand for digital voter rolls.Gandhi urged people to support this demand by registering on votechori.in/ecdemand.”This is a fight to protect democracy,” he added.The leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha also hit out at the Election Commission, accusing it of suppressing questions being raised.Anyone can click on the portal link and download “vote chori proof, demand EC accountability and report vote chori.”It also carries Gandhi’s video in which he reiterated his explosive claims of a “huge criminal fraud” in the polls through “collusion” between the BJP and the EC.He had cited an analysis in a constituency in Karnataka to support his claim, and said it was “a crime against the Constitution.”Several Congress leaders and supporters had registered on the portal and shared the certificates on social media.Gandhi, last Thursday, cited data from the 2024 Lok Sabha polls to claim over 1 lakh votes were “stolen” through five types of manipulation in an assembly segment in Karnataka.The opposition has been protesting in both Houses of Parliament against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging that the EC’s exercise is aimed at “disenfranchising voters” in Bihar ahead of the assembly elections due later this year.They have been demanding a discussion on the issue in both Houses.There has been a logjam in Parliament over the SIR in Bihar.Barring discussions on Operation Sindoor in the two Houses, Parliament has seen little business ever since the Monsoon session began on July 21 due to repeated adjournments, mostly over the SIR issue.On Monday, opposition MPs, including Rahul Gandhi, Kharge and Pawar, took out a protest march from the Parliament House to the Election Commission office against the revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and alleged “vote chori,” but were stopped midway by the police and briefly detained amid high drama.As opposition MPs, wearing white caps with a red cross on the words ‘SIR’ and “vote chori,” started walking from Parliament’s Makar Dwar to the EC office, carrying placards and banners, they were stopped by the police by putting up barricades outside the PTI Building.Many of the MPs sat on the road and raised slogans while some women parliamentarians climbed the barricades.They were later whisked away by police in buses lined up along the road and taken to the Parliament Street Police Station.All the MPs were later released.
Source link
