Yesterday, in Sasaram, Gandhi posted on his WhatsApp channel, he met yet more ‘dead’ voters who had been disenfranchised in the first phase of the SIR exercise. Posting a picture of the meeting, he said, “SIR is the new weapon of vote theft. These people standing with me in this picture are ‘living’ proof of this theft.”

Introducing the lost voters, he identified them as: “Raj Mohan Singh (70): farmer and retired soldier; Umravati Devi (35): Dalit and a labourer; Dhanjay Kumar Bind (30): of a backward class and a labourer; Sita Devi (45): woman and former MNREGA labourer; Raju Devi (55): a Backward Classes labourer; Mohmuddin Ansari (52): minority citizen and labourer.”

All had voted in the last 2024 general elections. However, “by the time Bihar assembly elections came, their identity, their existence was erased from the democracy of India,” alleged Gandhi in his post in Hindi.