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New Delhi: Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has criticized the Election Commission of India (ECI), saying that it led him to an unique experience of having tea with dead people.<\/p>\nNew Delhi: Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has criticized the Election Commission of India (ECI), saying that it led him to an unique experience of having tea with dead people.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, Rahul Gandhi had tea and took photos with individuals whom the ECI had marked as deceased and removed from the electoral rolls during the revision process in Bihar.<\/p>\n
Sharing the experience on X, Rahul Gandhi wrote, \u201cI have had many interesting experiences in life, but never had the chance to have tea with dead people. I thank the Election Commission for this unique experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also shared a four-minute video of his meeting with the seven “dead” voters. In it, Gandhi is heard telling them to move around and see Delhi as the “dead” cannot even be charged tickets.<\/p>\n
In the video, Rahul Gandhi asked them how they discovered that the Election Commission had declared them dead. They responded that they found out only after the revised voter lists were published, and emphasized, \u201cWe are alive and here to prove that we are not dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
The group also told Gandhi that they appeared before the Supreme Court on Wednesday to get their voting rights back. The Indian apex court is hearing petitions against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. The seven persons identified as Ramikbal Ray, Harendra Ray, Lalmuni Devi, Vachiya Devi, Lalwati Devi, Punam Kumari, and Munna Kumar, belong to Raghopur constituency. The Election Commission had removed the names of 6.5 million people from voter lists.<\/p>\n
The Congress also said in a statement that party leader Rahul Gandhi had tea with the seven voters in Bihar whom the Election Commission had declared dead during the voter list revision process.<\/p>\n
These seven represent only a fraction of unjustly deleted voters in two to three polling booths in the constituency, the Congress added added. “This is not a clerical error \u2014 it is political disenfranchisement in plain sight. After ‘Vote Chori’ was exposed in Bengaluru, it is clear that the Bihar SIR exercise is also compromised. When the living are struck off as dead, the death certificate is issued to democracy itself,” the Congress said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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