Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi attacks the Election Commission over reported internal dissent
- Rahul Gandhi has attacked the Election Commission over its Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
- He accused it of acting against the public interest, and called the exercise a form of vote theft.
- About 3.67 crore names have been deleted from draft rolls across eleven states and union territories.
- The Commission has defended the exercise as a routine clean-up of the rolls, required under electoral law.
Source: indiatvnews.com
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