Overview
- The BJP held coordinated marches and padayatras in multiple cities to counter the INDIA bloc's Ramlila Maidan 'Vote Bachao' campaign and to defend the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls.
- Party leaders have repeated statistics that they say arose from SIR — about 13 crore removed entries from a 96-crore voter base and roughly three crore characterised by the BJP as non-citizen 'infiltrators' — a figure the Opposition disputes.
- The Opposition has alleged widespread 'vote chori' and questioned ECI decisions and EVM reliability while the BJP accuses those claims of undermining public trust in constitutional institutions.
- Union ministers including Amit Shah and J.P. Nadda publicly challenged Congress leaders to a parliamentary debate on the issue and urged the ECI to be defended against what they call political attacks.
- Officials and BJP figures describe SIR as a routine targeted roll-cleanup to remove absent, shifted, duplicate and deceased names, and the party says the campaign will now move to district headquarters with consequences likely for local voter registration and political mobilisation ahead of upcoming elections.