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‘Not just vote theft, but rights theft’: Rahul slams Centre

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Updated: November 6th, 2026, 15:02 IST
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New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday slammed the Modi government over Union minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh’s remarks that voter ID will replace Aadhaar for identifying beneficiaries for social welfare programmes, saying “this isn’t just vote theft, it’s rights theft”.

The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha termed as a “conspiracy” the Modi government minister’s announcement that benefits of schemes will now be determined not by Aadhaar, but by Voter ID.

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“The conspiracy runs very deep — ”take your time to understand it. Under the guise of SIR, millions of names are being struck off voter lists, if not stopped, even more will be removed. Whose names are being targeted the most? Those who are furious with the BJP,” Gandhi said in his post in Hindi on X.

मोदी सरकार के मंत्री का ऐलान – योजनाओं का लाभ अब आधार से नहीं, वोटर ID से तय होगा।

साजिश बहुत गहरी है, इत्मीनान से समझिए।

SIR के नाम पर करोड़ों नाम वोटर लिस्ट से काटे जा रहे हैं – रोका नहीं गया तो और भी काटे जाएंगे।

ज़्यादातर नाम किनके? जो BJP के ख़िलाफ़ आक्रोश में हैं।

वोटर लिस्ट एक निष्पक्ष चुनाव आयोग के हाथ में होनी चाहिए – मगर अब वो मोदी सरकार के कर्मचारी, ज्ञानेश कुमार के हाथ में है, जिसकी BJP के साथ मिलीभगत में वोट चोरी हमने सबूत के साथ पकड़ी है।

तैयारी है ऐसी लिस्ट बनाने की जिसमें बहुमत हमेशा BJP का हो – और अब वही लिस्ट तय करेगी कि आपको योजना का पैसा मिलेगा या नहीं।

कल जिसने भी ठाना कि BJP को हटाना है, तो चुन-चुन कर सबका नाम काटा जाएगा।

नाम कटा – वोट गया। वोट गया – हक़ गया।

और देखते ही देखते आप एक hijacked लोकतंत्र के अदृश्य नागरिक बन जाएंगे – जहां जनता सरकार नहीं चुनेगी, सरकार अपनी जनता चुनेगी।

आज पंचायती राज की योजनाएं। कल राशन? पेंशन? मनरेगा? आवास? छात्रवृत्ति? आरक्षण?

यह चुनाव जीतने की राजनीति नहीं, चुनाव चोरी का इंतज़ाम और सत्ता में बने रहने का स्थायी बंदोबस्त है।

वोट देना आपका अधिकार है, शर्त नहीं। किसी ग़रीब की पेंशन उसके वोटर कार्ड की ग़ुलाम नहीं हो सकती।

ये सिर्फ़ वोट चोरी नहीं – ये हक़ चोरी है।

हम ये होने नहीं देंगे।

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) November 6, 2026

Voter lists should be in the hands of an impartial Election Commission, ”but now they’re in the hands of “Modi government employee Gyanesh Kumar”, whose collusion with the BJP in vote theft “we’ve caught red-handed with evidence”, he said.

The preparation is underway to craft such a list where the majority is always BJP’s, and now that very list will decide whether you get scheme benefits or not, Gandhi alleged.

“Anyone who decided yesterday that the BJP must go, will have their names cherry-picked and struck off. Name struck — vote gone. Vote gone — rights gone,” he said

“Just like that, you’ll become invisible citizens of a hijacked democracy, ”where the people don’t elect the government, the government selects its people. Today, Panchayati Raj schemes. Tomorrow, rations? Pensions? MGNREGA? Housing? Scholarships? Reservations?” Gandhi said.

This isn’t politics to win elections, ”it’s an arrangement to steal elections and a permanent setup to cling to power, he alleged.

“Voting is your right, not a condition. A poor person’s pension cannot be enslaved to their voter card. This isn’t just vote theft — it’s rights theft. We won’t let this happen,” Gandhi said.

He also posted a video clip of the remarks by Panchayati Raj Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh, alias Lalan Singh.

The Congress Thursday had attacked the Centre over Singh’s remarks that voter ID will replace Aadhaar for identifying beneficiaries for social welfare programmes, saying “vote chori” is just the trailer and the full picture is “haq-huqooq (rights) chori”.

Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh had said that access to financial benefits and welfare payments under schemes of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj will now require an Elector’s Photo Identity Card (EPIC) number along with mandatory biometric authentication.

 

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