LUCKNOW, Nov. 9 -- Congress Legislature Party leader Aradhana Mishra on Saturday alleged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) programme had no constitutional basis and was a BJP-sponsored scheme aimed at "stealing votes".

Addressing a press conference alongside Congress MPs Kishori Lal Sharma and Ujjwal Raman Singh and party senior leader PL Punia here, Mishra said after party MP Rahul Gandhi's press conference earlier this year on August 7, when he raised concerns over "vote theft", the Congress party launched a nationwide campaign to expose electoral manipulation across states.

Referring to alleged irregularities in the recent Haryana assembly elections, Mishra claimed that 2.5 million votes of the 20 million total voters were st...