Rahul held Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar to protect voters’ rights: Congress

Patna: After completing the fortnight-long Voter Adhikar Yatra across 25 districts of Bihar, the Congress on Sunday released a newsletter highlighting leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s nationwide campaign to “expose vote chori and defend democracy”. The initiative takes on added significance ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, for which both the NDA and the opposition INDIA bloc have mobilised all resources.In an X post, the Congress drew attention to Rahul’s ongoing campaign against “vote theft”, saying that his Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar was aimed at safeguarding voters’ rights. “Our campaign against vote theft has exposed how the BJP, in connivance with the Election Commission, is stealing the votes and rigging the elections,” the Congress said, urging people to read the newsletter for further details.Detailing the campaign against electoral manipulation, the newsletter stated that Rahul had, for months, exposed “voter fraud and the ECI’s role in aiding the BJP”.

It added that the turning point came when he uncovered over 1 lakh fake votes in Bangalore Central, after which he launched the Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar to take the message directly to the people.“What began as the fight of one leader has now grown into a people’s movement to protect our right to vote,” the newsletter claimed, adding that the yatra, highlighting “the disenfranchisement of lakhs of voters through the special intensive revision (SIR)” of electoral rolls, covered 1,300 km across Bihar and included 18 rallies attended by INDIA bloc leaders, such as RJD’s Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, CPI-ML’s Dipankar Bhattacharya and VIP’s Mukesh Sahani.

The newsletter also mentioned Rahul hosting a tea party with Bihar residents declared “dead” on the EC’s SIR draft rolls, participating in makhana harvesting with farmers in Purnia, and taking a bullet ride on pillion with his sister Priyanka Gandhi alongside Tejashwi.It further alleged that BJP operatives have been “stealing votes” using five methods – fake and invalid addresses, misuse of Form 6, duplicate voters, bulk voters at a single address and invalid photos.