SIR in focus as Rahul Gandhi hosts INDIA bloc leaders
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hosted a dinner for leaders of 25 INDIA bloc parties at his official residence in Delhi, where he showed them a presentation alleging fraud in the Lok Sabha voter roll in a constituency in Karnataka and said that after Maharashtra, Karnataka and Haryana, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Election Commission will "definitely" try to steal votes in the upcoming polls in Bihar, West Bengal and Assam.
The INDIA bloc parties decided to march to EC on August 11 to protest against the special intensive revision of voter rolls in Bihar, and discrepancies in voter lists, leaders present in the meeting said, in what is likely to become a major show of strength for the group.
Gandhi hosted the leaders at his new Sunehri Bagh Road bungalow and according to three leaders who attended the dinner, the focus of the gathering was entirely on the alleged discrepancies in the voter list and SIR.
This was the first dinner meeting hosted by Gandhi. Congress leaders pointed out that all top-ranking leaders of the INDIA bloc attended the dinner, turning it into one of the major meetings of the two-year old group. In 2021, Gandhi hosted a breakfast meeting at the Constitution Club but many top leaders skipped the event.
This time, the raging issue of SIR as well as Gandhi's elevated status as the LoP drew senior leaders such as Akhilesh Yadav (SP), Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O'Brien (TMC), MA Baby (CPIM), K Kanimozhi and TR Baalu (DMK), and former J&K CMs Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti. htc...
To read the full article or to get the complete feed from this publication, please
Contact Us.