Kiren Rijiju Shares Old Kapil Sibal Speech, Targets Congress Over 'Vote Chori' Claims

Rijiju shared a video of Sibal speaking in Parliament during his tenure as Law Minister in a post on X. He said Sibal's earlier explanation of the electoral roll process contradicted what he described as the Congress' current allegations.

Rijiju said Sibal's remarks were significant in the ongoing political dispute over voter deletions and accused the Congress of creating what he called a "bogus vote chori drama".

The Union Minister's post came amid an intensifying political exchange between the BJP and Congress over electoral rolls, voter deletions and the functioning of the Election Commission.

In the video shared by Rijiju, Sibal explained that names could be removed from electoral rolls under specific circumstances.

Sibal said one situation involved a voter shifting from one Assembly constituency to another, in which case the person's name would be removed from the previous constituency and registered in the new one.

He also cited cases where a person's name appeared more than once on electoral rolls, saying duplicate entries could be removed. The third category he mentioned was the death of a voter.

Sibal further said that people whose names had been wrongly removed could approach election officials and seek registration.

Rijiju used the former Law Minister's explanation to question the Congress' present allegations concerning voter deletions, arguing that the electoral system already provides for defined circumstances in which names can be removed and mechanisms through which affected voters can seek registration.

The BJP-Congress exchange comes amid wider Opposition criticism of the Election Commission and demands for greater transparency in the electoral process.