{"id":187637,"date":"2025-11-10T10:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=187637"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:16:47","slug":"sir-a-bid-to-institutionalise-vote-theft-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/11\/10\/sir-a-bid-to-institutionalise-vote-theft-rahul-gandhi.html","title":{"rendered":"SIR a bid to institutionalise &#8216;vote theft&#8217;: Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-187638\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/sir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/sir.jpg 753w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/sir-390x194.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Narmadapuram: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has said that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is an attempt to cover up &#8220;vote theft&#8221; and institutionalise it.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Rahul Gandhi arrived in Pachmarhi hill town in Narmadapuram to take part in the Madhya Pradesh district Congress presidents&#8217; training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to reporters he said, &#8220;Vote theft is an issue and SIR is about covering it up and institutionalising the system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Election Commission&#8217;s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters&#8217; list commenced in nine states and three Union territories on November 4.<\/p>\n<p>Rahul Gandhi said he believes that like in Haryana, &#8220;vote theft&#8221; took place in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh too. &#8220;A few days ago, I gave a presentation on Haryana, and I clearly saw that vote theft was taking place&#8230;25 lakh votes were stolen, 1 in 8 votes was stolen,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After looking at the data, I believe the same thing happened in MP, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. And this is the system of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Election Commission,&#8221; he charged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have more evidence, which we will provide gradually. But my issue is vote theft. SIR is about covering it up and institutionalising the system,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he will reveal more such details in future, Rahul Gandhi said they have a &#8220;lot of different information, very detailed information&#8221; and they will release it. &#8220;Right now, only a little has been shown,&#8221; the Congress leader said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narmadapuram: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has said that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is an attempt to cover up &#8220;vote theft&#8221; and institutionalise it. According to Kashmir Media Service, Rahul Gandhi arrived in Pachmarhi hill town in Narmadapuram to take part in the Madhya Pradesh district Congress &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-187637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/sir.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187639,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187637\/revisions\/187639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}