Kiren Rijiju Challenges Congress with 5 Questions on SIR, Electoral Processes
Rijiju accused the party of undermining democracy as he pressed it to explain election losses and support removing illegal, dead and duplicate voters.
- On Saturday, Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju launched a sharp attack on the Congress, accusing the party of attempting to undermine the Constitution and Indian democracy.
- This confrontation centers on the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, which has emerged as a major point of political contention between the ruling BJP and Opposition parties.
- Rijiju posed five questions to the opposition, asking how the Congress secured only 44 MPs in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections if election commissioners were appointed by its own government.
- Meanwhile, the INDIA bloc scheduled a mega rally for November 1 at Ramlila Maidan, with leaders planning a public impeachment program against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence.
- Rijiju attributed opposition actions to a "one-family party with outside forces," intensifying rhetoric ahead of the rally and underscoring widening institutional tensions between the ruling BJP and Opposition parties.
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Union Minister Rijiju challenges Congress to answer ‘basic questions’ amid row over SIR, CEC
Referring to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Mr. Rijiju questioned how the Congress suffered a third consecutive defeat when Gyanesh Kumar, the incumbent Chief Election Commissioner, was not heading the poll panel
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said that a family party, in connivance with external forces, is trying to destroy our Constitution and Indian democracy.
Kiren Rijiju challenges Congress with 5 questions on SIR, electoral processes
Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju has accused the Congress party of undermining democracy in India. He posed five questions to the party regarding their electoral performance and the Special Intensive Revision exercise. Rijiju questioned Congress's criticism of the exercise while emphasizing the importance of electoral integrity. Meanwhile, Rahul Gandhi announced a march in Delhi ahead of the INDIA bloc's mega rally at Ramlila Maidan.
‘Why did Congress lose three elections in a row?’ Kiren Rijiju poses five questions ahead of INDIA bloc's 'Delhi Chalo' rally
NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday posed five questions to the Congress, a day before the opposition INDIA bloc's rally at Delhi's Ramlila
New Delhi (Uttam Hindu News) – Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has launched a major attack on the Election Commission and the Congress party over allegations of vote theft. He posted on the social media platform ‘X’… The post Kiren Rijiju challenges Congress with 5 questions, asking, “When Gyanesh wasn’t the CEC, how did Congress lose?” appeared first on uttamhindu.com.
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