A discussion on electoral reforms in Lok Sabha turned into a political flashpoint on Tuesday when Rahul Gandhi declared the Election Commission captured and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government of colluding in vote theft. The Opposition slammed the legality of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, flagged large-scale voter deletions, and demanded structural reforms, warning that democracy itself is at risk if the poll body continues functioning without independence.

Rahul Gandhi set the tone with a sweeping indictment of the government and the institutions he claimed had come under its influence. Wearing khadi, an intentional political symbol, Gandhi argued that India's democracy derives its moral force from its people, and no government has t

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