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13 Aug 2025, 12:05 GMT+10
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], August 13 (ANI): BJP leader Boora Narsaiah Goud on Wednesday slammed the Opposition parties for their protests over special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound Bihar and 'vote theft' in the elections, accusing them of 'working with the support of foreign powers and the funding agencies that are bent upon stalling the progress of India.'
Goud also alleged that Rahul Gandhi and his team are trying to replicate the 2024 anti-government protests in Bangladesh that toppled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
'Rahul Gandhi and his team are playing a very dangerous game in the country. It is now clear that the entire issue of SIR in Bihar, along with some electoral errors in the list, is replicating what happened in Bangladesh, as they can't win elections democratically,' Goud told ANI.
'I am 100% sure they are working with the support of foreign powers and the funding agencies that are bent upon stalling the progress of India,' he said.
Earlier this week, the Opposition MPs marched to the Election Commission headquarters in Delhi, demanding the rollback of the SIR. They said that the exercise would disenfranchise large sections of society.
Rahul Gandhi had also alleged 'vote theft' in the 2024 general election.
Meanwhile, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday alleged that the EC is working with the Bharatiya Janata Party to manipulate the voter list in Bihar by issuing two Elector Photo Identity Card (EPIC) numbers to its leaders and workers.
Speaking at a press conference in Patna, Yadav stated, 'Before we had talked about Bihar's deputy chief minister, Vijay Sinha. Now you call it a crime, a mistake, or an expose, we had said it before too, but today I want to tell you that EC is helping the BJP, and cutting the votes of the Opposition. The people of the BJP are being given not one, but two EPIC numbers for themselves, in one Vidhan Sabha only.'
'We are exposing one more thing. Muzzafapur's mayor, a BJP leader named Nirmala Devi, has two EPIC IDs in the same Vidhan Sabha. In that, too, they are different. Not only this, but Nirmala Devi has two brothers-in-law; they also have two EPIC numbers,' he added.
The RJD leader further alleged that the names of people from other states were being added to Bihar's voter list during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ahead of the assembly elections.
'Now the people of Gujarat are becoming voters of Bihar. Bhikhubhai Dalsaniya, who is in charge of the BJP, has become a voter of Patna. He cast his last vote in Gujarat in 2024, but he is still a voter of Patna. He had his name deleted in Gujarat, but it's worth noting that it hasn't been five years, and you started changing places and voting. When the Bihar elections are over, then where will he go after getting his name deleted?' Yadav alleged. (ANI)
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