Declared Dead, but Sipping Tea with Rahul Gandhi

7 Voters Strike Back at Election Commission’s Lie

New Delhi: Seven voters in Bihar, all very much alive, shared tea with Rahul Gandhi on August 17, 2025— even as the Election Commission’s SIR list them as “dead.” Ramikbal Ray, Harendra Ray, Lalmuni Devi, Vachiya Devi, Lalwati Devi, Punam Kumari, and Munna Kumar all belong to Tejashwi Yadav’s constituency, Raghopur. They have been removed from the electoral rolls despite having completed the requisite paperwork for the SIR.

The Election Commission has not openly published lists of the people who it has declared dead, migrated, etc. Our teams on the ground were able to identify these people only because they managed to informally get EC’s internal in 2-3 polling booths. These 7 represent only a fraction of unjustly deleted voters in 2-3 polling booths in the constituency. This is not a clerical error — it is political disenfranchisement in plain sight.

After ‘Vote Chori’ was exposed in Bangalore, it is clear that the Bihar SIR exercise is also compromised. When the living are struck off as dead, the death certificate is issued to democracy itself.