Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday (November 6, 2026) slammed the Modi Government over Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh’s remarks that voter ID will replace Aadhaar for identifying beneficiaries for social welfare programmes, saying “this isn’t just vote theft, it’s rights theft”.
The Congress on Thursday (November 5, 2026) had attacked the Centre over Mr. We won’t let this happen,” Mr. Name struck, vote gone. Pensions? MGNREGA? Housing? Scholarships? Reservations? Mr. “Voting is your right, not a condition. A poor person’s pension cannot be enslaved to their voter card. This isn’t just vote theft, it’s rights theft. He also posted a video clip of the remarks by Panchayati Raj Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh, alias Lalan Singh.
The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha termed as a “conspiracy” the Modi Government Minister’s announcement that benefits of schemes will now be determined not by Aadhaar, but by Voter ID. Voter lists should be in the hands of an impartial Election Commission, but now they’re in the hands of “Modi Government employee Gyanesh Kumar”, whose collusion with the BJP in vote theft “we’ve caught red-handed with evidence”, he said. Vote gone, rights gone,” he said “Just like that, you’ll become invisible citizens of a hijacked democracy, where the people don’t elect the Government, the Government selects its people. Gandhi said. Singh’s remarks that voter ID will replace Aadhaar for identifying beneficiaries for social welfare programmes, saying “vote chori” is just the trailer and the full picture is “haq-huqooq (rights) chori”.
“Anyone who decided yesterday that the BJP must go, will have their names cherry-picked and struck off. Today, Panchayati Raj schemes. Tomorrow, rations?
