New Delhi, Aug 17 : A mammoth crowd turned Sasaram into a sea of Tricolour on Sunday as Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi launched the 16-day, 1,300-km-long ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ across Bihar. Senior INDIA bloc leaders, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, and former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, joined Rahul Gandhi at the historic launch that drew thousands of supporters lining the roads.
Addressing the rally, Kharge called upon the people of Bihar to resist “vote theft” allegedly being carried out by the BJP. “This yatra is not just for winning an election, it is to save the Constitution, democracy and people’s right to vote,” he said. Kharge accused the Election Commission of deleting 65 lakh voters from the rolls, largely from Dalit, Adivasi, minority, and other backward communities. Rahul Gandhi, in a sharp attack on the BJP and RSS, said the fight was to protect the Constitution from being “wiped out” through electoral manipulation. “Elections are being stolen in Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha across the country,” he said, citing Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision of voter lists as “a conspiracy to disenfranchise millions ahead of state polls.”