The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday (October 31, 2026) accused the Congress and its allies of ridiculing democratic institutions by staging a mock Parliament session, and said that Opposition parties had repeatedly disrupted proceedings in the real Parliament.
They should seat Rahul Gandhi ji as the mock Prime Minister in that very old structure. We have absolutely no objection. Earlier, BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi said the World Bank’s 2025 report acknowledged India’s success in reducing poverty under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Between 2011 and 2023, extreme poverty declined from 27.6% to just 2.6%, according to the report.
At a press conference, BJP MP Sambit Patra referred to the structure resembling the old Parliament building erected for the mock Parliament session and said: “They want to retain everything from the old British-era structure… He was referring to the Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance’s (INDIA) mock Parliament session held at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s New Delhi residence for a symbolic “public impeachment” of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of irregularities in the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the conduct of elections. He said that while the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government was committed to eradicating poverty and improving people’s standard of living, the Congress and Mr. Gandhi were “attempting to create anarchy in the country”.
‘No vote stolen’
Patra said: “If your 38 lakh BLAs (booth-level agents) had been doing their work properly, you would not have needed to hold this mock Parliament today. He pointed out that SIR had been conducted 10 times during Congress rule and accused the party of double standards.
Responding to the Opposition’s “vote chori ” charge, Mr. On the allegation that voting rights of 13 crore people were “stolen”, he said if that had been the case, the affected people would have taken to the streets. “The reality is that not a single person’s vote has been stolen,” he said. He alleged that during the Trinamool Congress rule in West Bengal, its workers would cast “bogus votes in the names of deceased people”, but SIR has stopped the practice. “When bogus votes can no longer be cast, the frustration we are witnessing today is natural,” Mr. Patra said.
