Senior opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, were detained by Delhi Police on Monday. The Congress-led INDIA bloc’s planned march to the poll panel’s office turned into a street showdown outside Parliament, with barricades breached, slogans echoing.
Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP @RahulGandhi says, “The reality is that they cannot talk. The truth is in front of the country. This fight is not political. This fight is to save the Constitution. This fight is for One Man, One Vote. We want a clean, pure voters list.”
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- Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and several other MPs were taken into custody during the protest. The INDIA bloc accused the poll panel of colluding with the BJP to manipulate voter lists and commit voter fraud.
- Street showdown outside Parliament – Visuals showed hundreds of opposition leaders and party workers blocking roads, waving flags, shouting slogans, and trying to scale police barricades. Leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut, were seen sitting on the road amid chants.
- Parliament disrupted – The protests forced both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha to adjourn till 2 p.m., with opposition MPs carrying the street agitation into the House.
- Core allegation: voter list manipulation – The opposition cites discrepancies in Maharashtra and Karnataka voter rolls, including an unusual spike in new registrations months after polls.
- Last week, Rahul Gandhi presented voter roll data at INDIA bloc meetings, pressing for a publicly searchable draft to verify alleged irregularities.
- Bihar voter list revision dispute – The Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to the Election Commission’s ‘special intensive revision’ in Bihar, which the opposition claims is aimed at deleting traditional anti-BJP vote banks.
- Supreme Court stance – The revision can continue, the court ruled, but the EC must ensure no genuine voters are excluded and allow the roughly 6.5 million already removed to appeal.
- EC hits back – The poll body has rejected the accusations, defended its processes as transparent, and demanded Rahul Gandhi submit his claims in a sworn affidavit with evidence.
