As Opposition Targets SIR, Delhi CM Rekha Gupta Turns The Questions Around

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta questioned AAP's protests over SIR and asked the party to focus on Punjab's law-and-order situation.

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday hit out at Congress and Rahul Gandhi over the opposition's protests against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, questioning why the exercise was being challenged now when it had been conducted under previous governments.

“Special Intensive Revision has been carried out several times, and the Election Commission has always conducted it, regardless of which party was in power at the state or central level. Why were there no objections then? Why are such objections being raised now?” Gupta said at a press conference.

Citing Delhi, she said the last SIR in the capital was conducted in 2002, when the Congress was also in power at the Centre.

“But did the Congress win even a single seat in Delhi after 2015? Was SIR not conducted? Where did its seats go?” she asked, attributing the party's electoral setbacks to voters rejecting it.

“The people have completely rejected the Congress, and that is what is troubling these political parties,” she said.

Gupta accused opposition parties of raising objections after losing elections, arguing that the…

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