Over 300 Members of Parliament from 25 opposition parties are set to march from Parliament’s Makar Dwar to the Election Commission (EC) headquarters on Monday, protesting alleged “vote theft” in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
Leaders from Congress, Samajwadi Party, TMC, DMK, AAP, Left parties, RJD, NCP(SP), Shiv Sena (UBT), and National Conference are expected to join the march at 11:30 am. The protest will feature multilingual posters in English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, and Marathi but no INDIA bloc banner, in a move to accommodate AAP, which left the alliance last month but still holds 12 parliamentary seats.
Delhi Police is unlikely to permit the rally to proceed to the EC office, less than 2 km away, with officials saying no formal request for permission has been received.
The Congress has launched a web portal urging citizens to demand transparency from the EC, including the release of digital voter rolls for public audit. Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi called “vote theft” an attack on democracy, claiming over 100,000 votes were manipulated in Karnataka’s Mahadevapura assembly segment during the 2024 polls — a claim the EC has rejected as “incorrect,” urging Gandhi to submit sworn evidence.
TMC MP Sagarika Ghose said AAP’s participation was encouraged by TMC’s outreach, framing the protest as a united stand for clean elections.
