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Congress Intensifies Candlelight and Torch Marches to Demand Electoral Roll Transparency

The demonstrations aim to force the Election Commission to release digital voter data for independent audits.

Overview

  • Telangana Congress held 'Vote Chor-Gaddi Chhod' candlelight rallies in all district headquarters, with senior leaders spotlighting alleged mass deletions and fake entries in the voter lists.
  • Rahul Gandhi has alleged a BJPElection Commission nexus behind large-scale voter removals and dubbed the irregularities 'vote theft' aimed at skewing election outcomes.
  • In Indore, the City Congress Committee launched the 'Satyagraha Janjagaran Abhiyan', forming human chains and planning foot marches and signature drives across the state.
  • Navi Mumbai District Congress staged a torch march led by President Poonam Patil, vowing to sustain protests until machine-readable voter rolls are made available.
  • The Election Commission insists on sworn affidavits and named complainants before probing alleged list manipulations, and BJP leaders have derided the protests as disorganized theatrics.