Sonia Gandhi, INDIA bloc MPs protest for 4th day against Bihar roll revision, demand rollback

New Delhi: MPs from INDIA bloc parties, including Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, protested in Parliament House complex on Thursday for the fourth consecutive day against the Election Commission's special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar and demanded its rollback as well as a discussion on the issue in both Houses.

Ahead of the start of the day's proceedings, top leaders and MPs of the opposition, including those of the Congress, DMK, TMC, Samajwadi Party, JMM, RJD and Left parties, assembled outside the Makar Dwar of Parliament and raised slogans against the government and the SIR process.

Leaders including Sonia Gandhi, Congress general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and KC Venugopal, Samajwadi Party's Ziaur Rahman Barq, All India Trinamool Congress' Kirti Azad and DMK's A Raja raised slogans such as "Save democracy" and "Stop vote-bandi".


There was a huge banner in front of them - which read 'SIR- Loktantra par Vaar' (SIR - attack on democracy) - as they lined up on the steps of the Makar Dwar of Parliament.

The opposition has been protesting in both Houses of Parliament against the SIR, alleging that the exercise is aimed at disenfranchising a section of voters in Bihar ahead of the assembly election.