SIR is Modi’s special package for Bihar to steal elections

GAYA: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Shri Rahul Gandhi today launched a fierce attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Election Commission during his ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Gaya, declaring that “Vote theft is an attack on the Constitution, on the soul of Hindustan, and on Bharat Mata herself. We will not allow either Modi or the Election Commission to attack our Bharat Mata or our Constitution.”

Addressing a huge crowd that had gathered to listen to him on the second day of his “Voter Adhikar Yatra” here today, Gandhi warned the Election Commissioners that strict action will be taken against them if they do not do their job according to the Constitution. Describing SIR (Special Intensive Revision) as “Modi’s special package for Bihar to steal elections”, he said, as he had caught the BJP and the ECI red handed stealing votes in Maharashtra, Haryana and Karnataka, now they have devised a new way to steal the Bihar elections with ‘SIR’. But, he asserted, people of Bihar will not let that happen. “Will you allow them to steal the elections?” he asked the jubilant crowds, who replied in one voice “no”.

Gandhi said, when he pointed out how the fake votes had been made in Mahadevapura assembly segment in Karnataka, the ECI, instead of probing the matter, asked him to file an affidavit. He said, very soon the entire country will seek the affidavits from the ECI, as very soon the Congress will expose how votes are stolen in each assembly segment across the country.

In a stern warning to all the three Election Commissioners, Gandhi said, “one day there will be an INDIA bloc government and we will see all three of you”. “You know, whatever I say, I mean it as I never lie”, he added.

The senior Congress leader cautioned people that their votes were being stolen to snatch their wealth, their jobs and their future. He pointed out, while the youth do not get any jobs in Bihar, people like Adani are handed over the ports and airports and everything else.

Referring to the ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’, he said, this was being done to send a clear message to the ECI that if it tries to steal the votes in Bihar, the people of Bihar will teach it a lesson.

Gandhi was accompanied by former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, Dipankar Bhattacharya and many senior INDIA leaders.