Overview

• Rahul Gandhi began a 16-day Voter Adhikar Yatra from Sasaram, urging citizens to oppose alleged “vote chori” and press for transparent access to voter data.
• Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar held an unusually public press conference rejecting Congress’s fraud allegations as baseless and demanding Rahul Gandhi file a sworn declaration or apology within seven days.
• The ECI said its Special Intensive Revision removed about 6.5 million names in Bihar, categorizing roughly 2.2 million as deaths, 700,000 as duplicates and 3.6 million as migrated voters.
• In compliance with a Supreme Court order, the commission created district-level portals within 56 hours to publish booth-wise lists of deleted electors searchable by EPIC number.
• The commission’s claims-and-objections window closes September 1, and a Supreme Court review of its published deletion data is scheduled for August 22.