New Delhi, Jul 28: Several MPs of the INDIA bloc parties, including Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, protested in the Parliament House complex on Monday against the Election Commission\u2019s voter roll revision in Bihar, and demanded its rollback.
\nAhead of the day\u2019s proceedings in Parliament, top opposition MPs, including Sonia Gandhi, Kharge, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Samajwadi Party\u2019s Akhilesh Yadav, TMC\u2019s Derek O\u2019Brien and Sagarika Ghose, DMK\u2019s Kanimozhi and A Raja, besides others, raised slogans and protested against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.
\nThere was a huge banner in front of them which read \u2018SIR- Attack on Democracy\u2019 as they lined up on and near the steps of the Makar Dwar of Parliament and staged a protest for the fifth consecutive day.
\nWith \u2018Stop SIR\u2019 placards in hand, several MPs of the opposition, including those of the Congress, DMK, TMC, Samajwadi Party, RJD and Left parties, participated in the protest and raised slogans.
\nThe opposition has been protesting in both Houses of Parliament against the SIR, alleging the EC\u2019s exercise was aimed at \u201cdisenfranchising voters\u201d in Bihar ahead of the Assembly elections. They have been demanding a discussion on the issue in both Houses.
\nOn Friday, several MPs of the INDIA bloc parties, including Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, had held an unusual protest in the Parliament House complex against the voter roll revision in Bihar by tearing posters with \u2018SIR\u2019 written on them and putting them in a \u2018disposal bin\u2019.
\nThey had also staged a protest march in the complex, demanding the rollback as well as a discussion on the issue in both Houses. (PTI)<\/p>\n
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