Rahul asks Bihar leaders to remain alert over EC’s SIR exercise in Bihar, says no eligible voters should be removed

New Delhi: During the meeting with Bihar leaders Leader of Opposotion in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi asked them to remain vigilant over the Election Commission if India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls so the real voters are not excluded from the voter rolls on the name of Rohingyas and others. 

On Monday, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge along with Rahul Gandhi, General Secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal and also attended by Bihar incharge Krishna Allavaru, state unit chief Rajesh Kumar, Akhilesh Prasad Singh, all party MPs, including Rajesh Ranjan aka Pappu Yadav and others for over an hour at party’s new Indira Bhawan headquarters. 

During the meeting, a party source said that Rahul Gandhi asked all party leaders to remain alert and vigilant over SIR exercise in the state being carfiedout by the BLOs. 

Rahul Gandhi, who is also a Lok Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli asserted that this is just the beginning of the process and in coming times this exercise will be applied in West Bengal, Assam and other states of the country, thus they need to remain alert on the ground, the source said. 

He also asked the party leaders to have a respectable seat sharing formula in Bihar with the alliance partner Rashtriya Janata Dal. 

The former Congress chief told the party leaders very clearly that the seat sharing formula to be a respectable one. 

The Congress has been aggressive on the issue of the SIR exercise ahead of the crucial assembly polls and alleged that it will disenfranchise over two crore voters in the state.

Rahul Gandhi had also joined the Mahagatbandhan (Grand Alliance) parties Chakka Jam on July 9 in Bihar’s Patna. 

Congress had also approached the poll panel over the SIR process.along with the INDIA bloc partners.