Bihar SIR: Amid the political uproar over the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue in Parliament, the INDIA alliance is reportedly planning to move an impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

The move comes just days after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accused the Election Commission of enabling large-scale voter fraud during the recent elections. According to HT, opposition leaders are preparing to submit an impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the alleged voter fraud.

INDIA alliance MPs were seen protesting outside Parliament on Monday morning against the SIR of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar and alleging 'vote chori' (vote theft) by the BJP, with complicity from the Election Commission of India.

A CEC can be removed only through an impeachment motion. The decision was taken at a meeting of INDIA Bloc leaders chaired by Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge.

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A senior Opposition leader told Deccan Herald that they have plans to submit an impeachment notice against CEC and modalities will be worked out soon.

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Rahul Gandhi has accused the poll panel of voter data manipulation and alleged “vote chori” in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Haryana. On August 7, he claimed that 100,250 votes were “stolen” in the Mahadevapura assembly segment under Bangalore Central, helping the BJP win the 2024 Lok Sabha seat. He also accused the Election Commission of “colluding” with the ruling party.

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On August 7, Rahul Gandhi presented a press briefing what he described as the Congress party’s investigation into the voter list in Mahadevapura, highlighting issues such as duplicate entries, invalid addresses, and bulk registrations including an instance where “80 voters were registered at one address.” He further accused the Election Commission of “destroying evidence” by limiting access to CCTV and webcast footage from polling booths to only 45 days.

In response, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar defended the decision, stating that releasing such footage would breach voter privacy. “Should the Election Commission share CCTV videos of any voter including their mothers, daughters-in-law, daughters?” Kumar asked, reiterating that only registered voters had participated in the polls.

Kumar also dismissed allegations of inflated voter rolls in Maharashtra, pointing out that no formal objections were raised during the draft roll period and that no evidence had been submitted even eight months post-election.

“If you keep saying anything 10 times, 20 times, it does not become true. The sun rises only in the east. It does not rise in the west just because someone says so,” Kumar said, underlining that the Election Commission “fearlessly stands with all voters without discrimination.”

He further stated that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar is being conducted in a transparent manner and is backed by the “credibility of seven crore voters.”