Photos: INDIA bloc MPs protest against SIR exercise in Bihar
GH News July 23, 2025 05:42 PM
New Delhi: Several MPs of the opposition INDIA bloc parties protested in the Parliament complex on Wednesday against the Election Commission’s special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and demanded its rollback and a discussion on the issue in both houses.
Ahead of the start of the day’s proceedings, top leaders and MPs of the opposition, including those of the Congress, DMK, TMC, Samajwadi Party, Shiv Sena (UBT), JMM, RJD and Left parties, assembled outside the Makar Dwar of Parliament and raised slogans against the government and the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll.
New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with RJD leader Prem Chand Gupta during the Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. INDIA bloc MPs staged a protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar. (PTI Photo)New Delhi: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan, DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee and other parliamentarians of the INDIA bloc stage a protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar, during the Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (PTI Photo)New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav, DMK MP T. R. Baalu and other parliamentarians of the INDIA bloc stage a protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar, during the Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (PTI Photo)New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Akhilesh Yadav, RJD MP Misa Bharti, Congress MPs Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and KC Venugopal, DMK MPs Kanimozhi Karunanidhi and Andimuthu Raja and others parliamentarians of the INDIA bloc stage a protest against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar, during the Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (PTI Photo)
Top leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav, DMK’s T R Baalu, Shiv Sena-UBTs Sanjay Raut, Kalyan Banerjee of TMC, besides others, raised slogans like “Save democracy” and “Stop vote-bandi”.
Many of them were seen wearing black clothes and carrying placards against the SIR in Bihar.
The opposition has been protesting in both houses of Parliament against the SIR, alleging that the EC’s exercise was aimed at disenfranchising voters in Bihar ahead of the assembly elections.
