NEW DELHI: The Congress is organising a mega rally at the Ramlila Grounds here on December 14 on “vote chori” with party workers from across the country who started arriving in the national capital.
Led by Lok Sabha Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, who focused on the vote chori by the BJP in states after states, the rally will focus on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said the Congress firmly believes that the BJP is weaponizing the SIR process for the “vote chori.”
The rally is being held after the completion of a nationwide signature campaign against the ‘vote chori’ allegations under which the party collected five crore signatures from across the country.
Kharge chaired on November 18 a meeting of the PCC presidents, CLP leaders, general secretaries, in-charges, secretaries and senior leaders from twelve states, including Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal where the SIR process is underway.
He said that the Congress Party is unequivocally committed to safeguarding the integrity of the electoral rolls.
He said Election Commission’s “conduct during the SIR process has been deeply disappointing”.
Kharge was in Latur on Saturday to attend the last rites of former Lok Sabha Speaker and former Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil.
“It must immediately demonstrate that it is not operating under the BJP’s shadow and it remembers its Constitutional oath and allegiance to the people of India, not to any ruling party,” Kharge said, accusing the Election Commission of “a complicity of silence” in conducting the SIR to help the BJP.
