Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hosted a dinner for leaders of 25 INDIA bloc events at his official residence in Delhi, the place he confirmed them a presentation alleging fraud within the Lok Sabha voter roll in a constituency in Karnataka and mentioned that after Maharashtra, Karnataka and Haryana, the Bharatiya Janata Occasion and the Election Fee will “undoubtedly” attempt to steal votes within the upcoming polls in Bihar, West Bengal and Assam.
The INDIA bloc events determined to march to EC on August 11 to protest in opposition to the controversial particular intensive revision of voter rolls in Bihar, and discrepancies in voter lists, leaders current within the assembly mentioned, in what’s more likely to develop into a significant present of energy for the group.
Gandhi hosted the leaders at his new Sunehri Bagh Street bungalow and in accordance with three leaders who attended the dinner, the main target of the gathering was completely on the alleged discrepancies within the voter listing and SIR in Bihar.
Gandhi, on social media, mentioned, “I laid out BJP-EC’s #VoteChori blueprint earlier than INDIA alliance leaders tonight. INDIA is united, decided, and able to defend democracy.”
This was the primary dinner assembly hosted by Gandhi. Congress leaders identified that every one top-ranking leaders of the INDIA bloc attended the dinner, turning it into one of many main conferences of the two-year-old group. In 2021, Rahul Gandhi had hosted a breakfast assembly on the Structure Membership, however many prime leaders skipped the occasion and despatched second-rung leaders. This time, the raging concern of SIR in addition to Gandhi’s elevated standing because the LoP drew senior leaders reminiscent of Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Occasion, Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O’Brien of the Trinamool Congress, MA Child of the Communist Occasion of India (Marxist), Ok Kanimozhi and TR Baalu of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, and former J&Ok chief ministers Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti.
In line with a pacesetter, Gandhi gave a presentation on Karnataka’s Mahadevapura meeting seat, repeating allegations made earlier within the day that numerous duplicate and fraud voters had entered the rolls within the constituency and that price the Congress the seat. Whereas there was no structured dialogue on the problems, former deputy chief minister of Bihar Tejaswi Yadav appraised the INDIA leaders concerning the SIR in Bihar and alleged that “EC and the BJP are hand in glove.”
“They’re attempting to seize votes,” Yadav mentioned on the dinner, in accordance with leaders cited above.
Gandhi pitched the protests in opposition to EC as a battle for strengthening democracy. He informed leaders, “We should always not relaxation however battle, in any other case free and honest elections is not going to occur in India,” in accordance with the leaders.
Yadav additionally introduced a significant rally in Bihar in opposition to SIR and urged all INDIA events to hitch the ultimate stage of the programme.
Nationwide Convention veteran Farooq Abdullah urged the leaders to take up the problem of restoration of J&Ok’s statehood each inside and outdoors Parliament, they mentioned.
In line with two leaders, there was no dialogue on the upcoming vice presidential election.
