Rahul's claims establish SIR needed to correct voters' list: Assam CM

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biaswa Sarma has claimed that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has indirectly supported the Special Intensive Revision process of the Election Commission of electoral rolls through his recent remarks. Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Sarma referred to Gandhi’s comments on alleged irregularities in voter rolls in Karnataka’s Mahadevapura assembly constituency. Gandhi had claimed that over one lakh votes in the area were fake, duplicate, or bulk voters, with invalid addresses and misuse of Form 6. Sarma said, "Rahul Gandhi has himself given a certificate that SIR should be conducted. There should be a unique name along with an Aadhaar number. He (Gandhi) took some North Indian names. In Assam, we have names of 'Bangladeshis' in our voter rolls." He added, "The same names are in Barpeta, Guwahati, Kerala and Delhi. It is a disease. That is why SIR is being done in Bihar." Sarma also claimed that names of deceased persons are still present in the Assam electoral rolls. "That is why it (SIR) is required in Assam. After a long time, Rahul Gandhi has indirectly supported the Election Commission.

राहुल गांधी ने आज अप्रत्यक्ष रूप से चुनाव आयोग की Special Intensive Revision प्रक्रिया का समर्थन किया है। pic.twitter.com/eWeXuOiyAs

— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) August 7, 2025

Gandhi on Thursday said the judiciary should step in as "the democracy that we love so much, does not exist anymore." He claimed that in Mahadevapura, there was "vote chori" of 1,00,250 votes. According to him, this included 11,965 duplicate voters, 40,009 voters with fake or invalid addresses, 10,452 bulk voters using a single address, 4,132 voters with invalid photos, and 33,692 cases of misuse of Form 6 for new voters.