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Rahul Gandhi, together with Tejashwi Yadav and other INDIA bloc leaders, revealed a combined manifesto for the upcoming Bihar assembly surveys, highlighting their ideological and political positioning. Gandhi implicated the Election Commission of predisposition towards the BJP, declaring an institutionalised effort to take votes through the unique extensive modification of electoral rolls.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday asserted that all the INDIA bloc constituents in Bihar were working unitedly for the upcoming assembly surveys which the outcomes will be productive.
Dealing with an interview in Araria, with RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav and leaders of other constituents of the INDIA bloc by his side, Gandhi stated that the opposition alliance will quickly bring out a typical manifesto for the surveys, due later on this year.
“The INDIA bloc will soon come out with a common manifesto for the Bihar assembly polls. All constituents of the opposition alliance are working unitedly… we are both ideologically and politically aligned, mutually respecting each other. The results would be fruitful,” Gandhi stated.
“I call it a good partnership among all constituents of the INDIA bloc,” he stated.
Releasing a scathing attack on the NDA federal government at the Centre, the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha declared that the continuous unique extensive modification (SIR) of electoral rolls in the eastern state was “an institutionalised attempt by the Election Commission to steal votes to help the BJP”
“We will not allow the EC to steal votes in Bihar. The poll panel is working for the benefit of the BJP. The SIR is an institutionalised attempt by the EC to steal votes in the upcoming assembly polls in the state to help the saffron party,” he included.
The EC has actually been totally exposed as working for the BJP, Gandhi stated.
“When I exposed the EC over the irregularities committed in preparing voter lists in Haryana, Maharashtra, Karnataka and how forged voters were added to the rolls, the EC demanded an affidavit from me over the issue. But when Anurag Thakur of the ruling dispensation said the same thing in a press conference, the Commission did not ask for any affidavit from him. This shows that EC is not neutral,” Gandhi stated.
The partial behaviour of the EC requires to alter, he included.
“The ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar has been a great success, and people joined it in large numbers… we have received the support of crores of people of the state, who joined us on their own. It has established the fact that the EC is stealing people’s votes in Bihar,” the Congress leader stated.
“One can imagine the impact of our yatra that even small kids are now raising the slogan of ‘vote chor, gaddi chhor’ (vote thief, vacate seat of power),” Gandhi stated.
He, nevertheless, averted a direct reply to a concern regarding why the Mahagathbandhan was not stating Tejashwi Yadav as the chief ministerial prospect of the INDIA bloc for the approaching surveys.
“We are cooperating with one another, and we have to check ‘vote chori’ (vote theft),” he stated.
Numerous other leaders of the INDIA bloc, consisting of CPI (ML) Liberation’s Dipankar Bhattacharya, VIP’s Mukesh Sahni, besides Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, were likewise present at the joint interview.