Upping the ante over its ‘vote chori’ pitch, the Congress on Friday announced that it will hold a rally on December 14 at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi.
The Congress rally against alleged ‘vote chori’ will highlight crores of signatures that the party has collected on the issue since August, Congress general secretary (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal said.
The rally has been named the ‘Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod’ rally, which translates to ‘Vote thief, leave the throne’.
Venugopal said the spectre of “vote chori” is the biggest danger looming over our democracy today.
“To send a message across the nation against these attempts to destroy our Constitution, the Congress will hold the ‘Vote Chor Gaddi Chhod’ Maha Rally on December 14 (1.30 pm onwards) at Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi,” he said in a post on X.
“We have received crores of signatures from every corner of India, rejecting the BJP-ECI’s nefarious tactics like adding bogus voters, deleting opposition-inclined voters, and manipulating voter rolls at a mass scale,” Venugopal said.
“The ECI, which was once a neutral umpire, is now a blatantly partisan player — completely destroying the very concept of a level-playing field in elections,” he said.
“We will not remain silent as this attack on the electoral system unfolds in front of our eyes. This Maha Rally is only the beginning of our fight to reclaim Indian democracy from the clutches of the Vote Chors!” Venugopal said.
The party had announced the rally after its top leadership, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, recently held a review meeting of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in 12 States and Union Territories (UT).
Earlier this week, the Congress accused the Election Commission of working on a “sinister design” to destroy democracy and opposition parties through a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
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The Congress had alleged that the poll body’s conduct during the SIR process has been “deeply disappointing” as the exercise is aimed at deleting targeted votes.
