The opposition MPs also staged a protest march in Parliament House complex, demanding the rollback of SIR as well as a discussion on the issue in both houses.
By PTI July 25, 2025, 5: 04: 55 PM IST (Published)
Several MPs of the INDIA bloc parties, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi, on Friday (July 25) held an unusual protest in Parliament House complex against the voter roll revision in Bihar by tearing posters with ‘SIR’ written on them and putting them in a ‘disposal bin’.
The opposition MPs also staged a protest march in Parliament House complex, demanding the rollback of SIR as well as a discussion on the issue in both houses.
Kharge alleged that the Modi government wants to remove the votes of the poor, Dalits, tribals, backward classes, minorities and the deprived, so that it can change the Constitution of India according to the Manusmriti.
“The RSS-BJP has always wanted to deprive the weaker sections of the society of the right to vote, and now by using SIR, it is hell-bent on fulfilling its years-old intention,” he claimed in a post in Hindi on X.
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It is very unfortunate that a constitutional institution like the Election Commission is supporting the BJP-RSS in this conspiracy of ‘vote bandi’, Kharge said.
“The whole country has seen how the BLOs of the Election Commission in Bihar are sitting and getting their own people to fill the forms, so that the right to vote can be snatched from the deprived sections of the society. Now the Election Commission will do the same thing across the country,” he