Spokesperson: Shri Pawan Khera: AICC in-charge for Media and Publicity Shri Pawan Khera said that electoral rolls were being “deliberately manipulated” and democratic institutions “compromised” to engineer favourable outcomes for the ruling party. “Abki baar loktantra ka antim sanskar”, he remarked, while suggesting that the BJP had performed the last rites of democracy and democratic processes.

In a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party, Shri Pawan Khera flagged large-scale electoral manipulation, institutional capture and systematic erosion of democratic processes across multiple states, including West Bengal and Assam.

“The Vote-Chor BJP regime has now brazenly and systematically subverted the mandate of the people of Assam and West Bengal through a deeply entrenched, remote-controlled electoral machinery, effectively hijacking the institutions that are meant to protect free and fair elections”, he said, adding, “what remains today is not democracy in practice, but a hollowed-out shell, captured, compromised, and controlled”.

Shri Pawan Khera asserted that in West Bengal, more than 90 lakh voters’ names were deleted during the Special Intensive Revision exercise, with 27 lakh citizens denied due process, and said this had materially affected results in several constituencies.

The Chairman (Media & Publicity) also referred to electoral irregularities in Assam, saying that both states reflected a “captured democratic process” rather than isolated lapses. Wednesday, May 6, 2026