BJP accuses INDIA bloc of division over voter-list verification dispute
Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan accused Congress and its allies of spreading misinformation over Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls and said the INDIA bloc was fragmented. His comments followed a meeting on the issue that some major opposition leaders did not attend in person.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has accused the Congress and its allies of undermining democratic institutions while defending the verification of electoral rolls through Special Intensive Revision. Union Minister and BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan made the allegations at a press conference on Wednesday. He said opposition parties were spreading confusion after electoral defeats and questioning the Election Commission instead of examining their own performance.
Chouhan also criticised the composition of an INDIA bloc meeting on the SIR issue. He pointed to the absence of Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, DMK president M.K. Stalin and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren participated virtually, according to the supplied material. Chouhan said the attendance showed that the alliance was fragmented and claimed its parties were not united behind Rahul Gandhi. He described the opposition’s planned programme from October 2 to 8 as a campaign to protect political families rather than democracy.
He also accused the Congress and its allies of preparing explanations for defeats in upcoming elections. Defending voter-list verification, Chouhan questioned why names of deceased people, duplicate registrations or non-citizens should remain on electoral rolls. These comments were part of the BJP’s argument that clean voter lists are essential to democracy.
The supplied material records Chouhan’s allegations but does not include a response from the Congress or other INDIA bloc parties to his remarks.
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