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Aug 12, 2025: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused the Election Commission of not performing its duty of enforcing the 'one man, one vote' principle and said "abhi picture baki hai", alluding to the claims of irregularities in the voters' list.
Gandhi asserted that his party was engaged in protecting the Constitution and would continue to do so.

"There is not just one seat (where there is 'vote chori') but there are a number of seats. This is being carried out in a methodical and national manner. The EC knows it and we know it too," the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha told reporters in the Parliament House complex.
"Earlier, evidence was not there but now the evidence is there. The Constitution is protected by us. 'One man, one vote' is the foundation of the Constitution," Gandhi said.

Gandhi asserted that the EC has failed to carry out its mandate to enforce "one man, one vote." "So we are protecting the Constitution and will continue to do so. We will not stop," he said.
When asked about Minta Devi, a voter from Bihar who is said to be 124 years old and on the Election Commission's voter list, Gandhi responded, "There are endless cases like that." Abhi picture baki hai."

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, general secretary of the Congress, added that there have been a number of such instances in which relatives' names and addresses are all fake. On Tuesday, a number of INDIA bloc party lawmakers staged a protest in the Parliament House complex against the Election Commission's voter roll revision in Bihar. Many of them wore white T-shirts with the name of the "124-year-old voter" whose name was allegedly found on the state's voters' list. Near Parliament's Makar Dwar, opposition MPs from the DMK and Left parties, as well as Congress parliamentary party chief Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, TMC's Derek O'Brien, DMK's TR Baalu, and NCP(SP)'s Supriya Sule, gathered. They held posters and raised slogans, demanding a rollback of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

Several MPs, including Priyanka Gandhi, were seen wearing white T-shirts with 'Minta Devi' and her photo emblazoned on it and '124 Not Out' written at the back.
Manickam Tagore of the Congress said that Rajeev Kumar and Gyanesh Kumar's EC has become a BJP department. "Minta Devi is a first time voter and she is 124-years-old. The voters list carries her name as a first time voter. We are wanting a discussion on such issues. How EC has become a party to the BJP. The voter list is full of such fraud," he charged while participating in the protest.
There has been a logjam in Parliament over the SIR in Bihar. Barring discussions on Operation Sindoor in the two Houses, Parliament has seen little business ever since the Monsoon session began on July 21 due to repeated adjournments, mostly over the SIR issue.

On Monday, opposition MPs, including Rahul Gandhi, Kharge and Pawar, took out a protest march from the Parliament House to the Election Commission office against the revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and alleged "vote chori", but were stopped midway by the police and briefly detained amid high drama.