Describing the Congress-led protests against the special intensive revision (SIR) as a “political drama” staged by the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) accused him and the Congress of “lying” to mislead the people. The Election Commission of India’s (ECI) formal statement on the issue exposed their claims, it said.
At a late-evening press conference, BJP MP and spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi cited the ECI statement to assert that the poll panel did not receive any request from either the Congress party or any other constituent of the INDIA bloc for a meeting. Gandhi wanted to meet the Commission and submit a memorandum. As such meetings are held only on ECI premises, the poll panel offered to send its senior-most officer on duty to receive the memorandum. However, the proposal was declined. Mr. Questioning the claim about the number of MPs at the protest, Mr. Trivedi. Mr.
It received information from the Delhi Police around 4 p.m. that a delegation of MPs led by Mr, according to the ECI. A police officer then conveyed that the meeting had been sought with a group of 240 MPs at Parliament House Annexe. Trivedi said the Congress had 99 MPs in the Lok Sabha and 30 in the Rajya Sabha, and the Samajwadi Party had 37 MPs, who, he said, were not at the protest site in the evening.
Trivedi alleged that the sequence of events demonstrated that the Congress leaders had no genuine intention to meet the Commission, but only to create a “political spectacle”. He said the Trinamool MPs were also absent, while the DMK and the Aam Aadmi Party stayed away. “It is very clear that the entire exercise was carried out to turn democracy into a monarchy, while wearing the mask of democracy, and to establish that very monarchy,” said Mr. The BJP leader said the sit-in by Mr. Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and their party colleagues at Akashvani Bhawan reflected the “same mindset of the Congress that does not accept democracy”. Trivedi questioned at whose behest the Congress “continued to level allegations despite being repeatedly proven wrong”. “Congress does not go to court on any matter because all its allegations are baseless,” he said.
