'SIR exercise will be carried out in Bengal': BJP leader Dilip Ghosh

Calling Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls a "good practice", Bharatiya Janata Party leader Dilip Ghosh on Thursday said that poll body should have conducted this exercise in West Bengal before carrying it out in Bihar.

Speaking to ANI, Ghosh said, "First of all, it should have been done in Bengal but it's good that this practice has been done in Bihar. It will be done in Bengal too. Full preparations are going on for it."

However, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has not yet announced any dates for conducting the SIR in the state, with Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar saying on August 17 that a decision will be taken on it.


"The three Election Commissioners will decide when the exercise of SIR will be carried out in West Bengal or other states," the CEC had said in a press conference in Delhi.

The BJP leader further hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, claiming that his own party does not agree with his stance on alleged vote theft in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Ghosh said that while Gandhi is alleging vote theft in the Karnataka assembly segment of Mahadevpura, the ruling Congress government in the state is saying the opposite.

"He (Rahul Gandhi) has nothing to do now, nothing to say. He is saying that votes have been stolen, but his government, the Karnataka government, says no, there has been a fair election here, there is no theft. So his government is not with him, his party is not with him. He should correct himself otherwise people will correct him," Ghosh said.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Congress leader had said that the slogan of 'vote chor, gaddi chhor' is being proven across the country, and the party will continue to prove it again and again, in more dramatic ways.

While on a visit to his Raebareli constituency, Gandhi said, ""The main slogan 'Vote chor, gaddi chhor' is being proven across the country. We will prove it again and again in more and more dramatic ways".