EC grants appointment to Congress today after 'vote theft' allegations

INDIA bloc MPs are planning to take a march from Makar Dwar in Parliament to the Election Commission office at Nirvachan Sadan on August 11

The Election Commission of India has granted an appointment to Congress on August 11 at 12 pm after the main opposition party requested for a meeting, the poll body said in a statement.

In a letter to Congress MP Jairam Ramesh, the EC said, "EC has granted an appointment for an interaction at 12:00 PM today. It is requested that, due to the limitation of space, names of up to 30 persons may kindly be intimated."

The Congress is yet to respond to the letter at the time of writing this story.

Meanwhile, the INDIA bloc MPs in both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha are planning to take a march from Makar Dwar in Parliament to the Election Commission office at Nirvachan Sadan on August 11.

The march will begin at 11:30 AM and proceed via Transport Bhawan.

Earlier in the day, the Delhi Police said that no permission has been sought so far for the proposed march by the INDIA Bloc from Parliament to the Election Commission.

On Sunday, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said that the INDIA bloc MPs had marched from the Parliament to the Election Commission's office on Monday to protest the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar and allegations of "voter fraud" during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

At a press conference, Digvijaya Singh alleged that all the Booth Level Officers (BLOs) were filling out "fake forms" in one room.

He stated, "Rahul Gandhi put forward such facts that no one could deny... The name of one person appeared at multiple locations, including polling booths... Rahul Gandhi's demand was for electronic data of the voter list, which could be scanned using software to determine how many votes were cast on a single EPIC number... The reason for the SIR happening in Bihar was questioned. It had been thoroughly tested in 2003, which took 2 years in Bihar, but this time they wanted to do it in 1 month..."