Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 05:55pm on 15 Oct 2026,Thursday Politics
BJP general secretary Smriti Irani on October 15 criticised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over protests against the Election Commission of India (ECI), calling him an “unelectable prince” and accusing the Opposition of seeking regime change rather than electoral transparency. She dismissed Gandhi’s “vote chori” allegations as headline-chasing and questioned whether he had sufficient evidence to support his claims. Defending the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Irani claimed that 90% of approximately 90 crore voters had been verified. She maintained that governments must be changed through elections, not protests, amid escalating tensions between the BJP and Opposition parties. (PC: India Today)
