“Chaos across country under the garb of SIR”: Rahul Gandhi

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said on Sunday that “chaos” has been unleashed across the country in the garb of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls and alleged that 16 Booth Level Officers have died due to stress.

The SIR is underway in nine States and three Union Territories. The first phase of SIR was held in Bihar ahead of the State’s assembly elections.

“Under the guise of SIR, chaos has been unleashed across the country – the result? In three weeks, 16 BLOs have lost their lives. Heart attacks, stress, suicides – SIR is no reform, it’s an imposed tyranny,” Rahul Gandhi alleged in a post on X in Hindi.

“SIR is a calculated ploy – where citizens are being harassed and the deaths of BLOs from unnecessary pressure are dismissed as “collateral damage.”