Electoral roll revision an attempt to steal votes, Bihar’s future: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that the Election Commission was attempting to steal votes in Bihar just as it had allegedly done in Maharashtra, The New Indian Express reported.

The special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar was “not only an attempt to steal your vote but also of your future”, The Hindu quoted the Opposition leader as saying.

“But the youths of Bihar will not let it happen…” he added.

Bihar is expected to head for Assembly elections in October or November.

Addressing workers of the Opposition INDIA bloc following a protest march in Patna against the revision of the voter roll launched by the poll panel, Gandhi said that the Election Commission “should know that this is Bihar, and the people of this state will never allow the election body to steal the mandate here after what it did in Maharashtra and Haryana”.

Gandhi and the Congress have repeatedly alleged that there was “industrial-scale rigging involving the capture of our national institutions” in the Maharashtra polls held in November.

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance had defeated the Maha Vikas Aghadi, which includes the Congress, in the polls.

The special intensive revision of the electoral rolls in Bihar was announced by the Election Commission on June 24 ahead of the Assembly polls.

As part of the exercise, persons whose names were not on the 2003 voter list...

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