{"id":29248,"date":"2026-07-01T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/stolen-election-congress-questions-bjps-legitimacy-as-27-lakh-voters-deleted-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:39:54","slug":"stolen-election-congress-questions-bjps-legitimacy-as-27-lakh-voters-deleted-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/stolen-election-congress-questions-bjps-legitimacy-as-27-lakh-voters-deleted-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stolen Election&#8217;: Congress Questions BJP&#8217;s Legitimacy as 27 Lakh Voters Deleted | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132107860,imgsize-80508,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/congress-general-secretary-kc-venugopal.jpg\" alt=\"'How is BJP democratically elected?' Congress calls it 'stolen election' after 27 lakh voters deleted\" title=\"Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal (ANI image)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal (ANI image)\">Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal (ANI image)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>KOLKATA: Congress General Secretary (Organisation) <span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">K C Venugopal<\/span> on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on the BJP over the <span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Special Intensive Revision (SIR)<\/span> of electoral rolls, alleging that the exercise has resulted in the deletion of over <span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">27 lakh voters<\/span> and undermined the democratic process.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Addressing a press conference, Venugopal claimed the electoral exercise had stripped millions of their voting rights.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>&#8220;How can you call this government a democratically elected government? More than 27 lakh voters have been deleted from the voters&#8217; list. This is a stolen election, not a democratic mandate,&#8221; he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h3><b>&#8216;Agencies being weaponised against opposition&#8217;<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Venugopal also alleged that central investigative agencies are selectively used against opposition leaders.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>&#8220;We have seen that whenever corrupt people join the BJP, the charges against them disappear. This is the same tactic. That is why I have said agencies like the CBI, ED and the Income Tax Department are being weaponised to target Opposition parties,&#8221; he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>He further alleged that authoritarian politics ultimately fails, adding that India was &#8220;waiting for that moment.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>&#8220;Wherever democracy is in danger, Congress will stand there to protect it. The BJP is trying to hijack the country&#8217;s constitutional institutions. We will unite to protect them and uphold the Constitution,&#8221; he said further.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h3><b>Questions BJP-RSS over Ram Temple donations<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Venugopal also questioned the BJP&#8217;s silence over allegations of misuse of donations received by the <span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Ayodhya Ram Temple<\/span>.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/>&#8220;For years, the BJP-RSS politics revolved around polarisation and the Ram Mandir. But today, when allegations regarding misuse of temple donations have surfaced, why are they silent? If they claim to speak for Hinduism, they must answer these questions. The BJP should come clean on the Ayodhya temple trust,&#8221; he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/how-is-bjp-democratically-elected-congress-calls-it-stolen-election-after-27-lakh-voters-deleted\/articleshow\/132107651.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal (ANI image) KOLKATA: Congress General Secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on the BJP over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging that the exercise has resulted in the deletion of over 27 lakh voters and undermined the democratic process.Addressing a press conference, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}