Describing the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls as an "institutionalised chori", Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday (August 8, 2025) claimed that the Election Commission is "openly colluding" with the BJP to carry out this "theft" with the objective of taking away the voting rights of the poor.
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Mr. Gandhi made the charge in a video released on his YouTube channel in which he also claimed that SIR has been brought in Bihar because the ECI knows that "we have caught their chori".
He alleges that the Election Commission (EC) and the BJP are "colluding" to "steal elections".
A day after he held a press conference in which he pointed to a "vote chori" model being allegedly used in various constituencies across the country, Mr. Gandhi released the video explaining the investigation done by the Congress and what the analysis of data of an assembly segment in Karnataka from the 2024 Lok Sabha polls suggests.
