Patna : A day after Bihar’s Minta Devi – the face of INDIA bloc’s Tuesday’s protest against ‘vote chori’ fumed at them for T-shirts featuring her – Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday criticised the Congress party and Opposition MPs for ‘mocking’ her by doing so. Rijiju wrote, “Whole day Congress and opposition MPs used the photo of Minta Devi, mocked her that she is 124 years old!…Will Congress apologise to the nation?”
Rijiju also took a dig at Congress’s recent move to sack its Karnataka minister KN Rajanna after he admitted to voter list irregularities during the Congress’s tenure in the state. He attached a video to his tweet in which, first, Priyanka Gandhi is speaking to the reporters about the manipulation of the voter list and then Minta Devi is lashing out at the Opposition while speaking to the media.
A Bihar resident, during a protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls in Bihar. The protest, held in New Delhi, featured several INDIA bloc MPs wearing T-shirts with Devi’s picture and the phrase “124 not out,” referring to her being erroneously listed as 124 years old on the voter list.
The 35-year-old reacted strongly, slamming both the clerical error in the Election Commission’s data and the Opposition MPs for using her image without consent. The protest against the SIR came amid accusations from INDIA bloc parties that the Election Commission was colluding with the ruling BJP to selectively remove voters. Their allegations are based on Rahul Gandhi’s detailed presentation based on poll boy’s data revealing massive discrepancies in the voter list.
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