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INDIA alliance MPs, including Leaders of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, took out a protest march on Monday (August 11, 2025) from Parliament House to the Election Commission against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar and alleged “vote chori” but were stopped midway by the police and detained citing disruption. Police put up barricades on the way to prevent the MPs, protesting the voter roll revision in Bihar and the alleged poll rigging, from marching forward. (Photo Source: Official Twitter handle @INCIndia)
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As the MPs were stopped, many of them sat on the road and raised slogans, including Priyanka Gandhi. Whereas multiple leaders, such as TMC’s Mahua Moitra and the Congress’s Sanjana Jatav and Jothimani, climbed the barricades and raised slogans against the EC. (Photo Source: Official Twitter handle @INCIndia)
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Following his claims alleging the BJP of electoral manipulation, Yadav physically climbed the police barricades during the protest on Parliament Street on Monday, saying the BJP is using police to stop us from peacefully protesting. (Photo Source: Official Twitter handle @INCIndia)
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More than 30 MPs, including Congress’s Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut and TMC’s Sagarika Ghose, were detained and taken to the Parliament Street Police Station. The Election Commission had only given permission to 30 MPs to enter its premises, but the protesters were in “large numbers”, officials said. (Photo Source: Official Twitter handle @INCIndia)
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“Actually, we cannot talk to the ECI, this is the reality,” LoP Rahul Gandhi told reporters after he, along with 29 other MPs, were released by the police. “The truth is before the nation, and this fight is not political; it is to save the Constitution. It is a fight for one man-one vote. We want a clean and accurate voter list,” Gandhi added. (Photo Source: Official Twitter handle @INCIndia)
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Congress President Malikarjun Kharge was seen sitting at the protest site alongside Sharad Pawar. Kharge supported Rahul Gandhi’s statements, saying, “If a government does not even allow us to go towards the Election Commission, I don’t know what the government is afraid of.” (Photo Source: Official Twitter handle @INCIndia)
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Multiple MPs, including TMC’s Mahua Motira, Congress MP Sanjana Jatav, and TMC MP Mitali Bag, fainted on their way to the Election Commission of India during the protest.
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