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Senior Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday said that the INDIA alliance would reveal the BJP's 'conspiracy' and that the protest against 'vote chori' and SIR is a fight to preserve democracy and safeguard people's right to vote.

He made these comments as leading opposition figures were prevented from marching to the Election Commission office to express their disapproval of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar. In a post on X, he said, "BJP's cowardly dictatorship will not work!", "This is a fight to protect the people's right to vote. This is a struggle to save democracy," he said.

 

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"The allies of the INDIA coalition will surely expose this BJP conspiracy to shred the Constitution," Kharge said in his post in Hindi.

Kharge took part in the protest march of opposition MPs from Parliament to the Election Commission office. The police stopped the protesting MPs from continuing their demonstration, arrested them, and transported them in buses. During the march, police arrested several prominent leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Kharge. 

 

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