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BJP Asks If Congress Wants To Shield Fake Voters In SIR Row
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Moneycontrol•06-10-2026, 16:09
BJP Asks If Congress Wants To Shield Fake Voters In SIR Row
- •The BJP disputed Congress claims regarding 13 crore deleted voters during the Special Intensive Revision, clarifying the figure refers to draft roll removals.
- •BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi stated the data includes deceased, shifted, duplicate, and untraceable voters.
- •Trivedi accused Congress of opposing the voter-roll revision to protect fake voters and questioned the party's shifting stance on voter duplication over the years.
- •Tensions escalated as Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were blocked from entering the Election Commission office, leading to an INDIA bloc protest.
Key Questions Answered
The BJP clarified that the 13 crore figure cited by the opposition referred to names removed from draft electoral rolls rather than final deletions, accusing the Congress of wanting to shield fake voters.
BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi stated that the data included 2.8 crore deceased voters, 6.3 crore people who had shifted, 1 crore duplicate entries, and roughly 3 crore untraceable voters.
Sudhanshu Trivedi noted that Rahul Gandhi, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Ashok Geholt, Sachin Pilot, and K.C. Venugopal had all previously spoken about voter duplication at various places.
