Rahul Gandhi blasts ECI over SIR, claims 16 BLOs died in three weeks

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has criticized the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging it has led to chaos and death of 16 Booth Level Officers (BLOs) in three weeks.

“Under the guise of SIR, chaos has been unleashed across the country… Heart attacks, stress, suicides – SIR is no reform, it’s an imposed tyranny,” Gandhi said in a post on handle X, questioning the ECI’s intentions.

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Gandhi alleged the ECI’s system forces citizens to navigate thousands of scanned pages of a 22-year-old voter list, aiming to exhaust voters and facilitate vote theft. He contrasted India’s IT prowess with the ECI’s reliance on paper-based processes.

“If the intent were pure, the list would be digital, searchable, and machine-readable,”