AMN / PATNA
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today concluded his Voter Adhikar Yatra in Patna with a massive roadshow, marking the conclusion of his campaign against the Special Intensive Revision in Bihar. The Voter Adhikar Yatra, which began on 17th last month from Sasaram in Rohtas district, saw participation from several leaders of the INDIA bloc.
For 14 days, Rahul Gandhi and fellow INDIA bloc leaders marched across Bihar, covering nearly 1,300 kilometers, 25 districts, and over 100 assembly constituencies. What began as a march for voter rights ended as a thunderous political showdown, with Rahul directly accusing both the BJP and the Election Commission of colluding to steal elections.
The culmination rally started with a symbolic “Gandhi se Ambedkar” march from Gandhi Maidan, with top opposition leaders including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, CPI(ML)’s Dipankar Bhattacharya, Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Sanjay Raut, TMC’s Yusuf Pathan, and CPI(M)’s M.A. Baby walking shoulder to shoulder. But as police halted the procession at Dak Bungalow crossing, the tone of the gathering turned from symbolic unity to a fiery indictment of the ruling party. “Vote chor gaddi chhod,” chanted the crowd, echoing Rahul Gandhi’s words as he sharpened his attack. “The forces that killed Mahatma Gandhi are now trying to murder the Constitution of India. We will not allow them to succeed.
We took out this yatra so that people could raise their voices, and what we saw was extraordinary – lakhs of citizens standing up against injustice.” But it was Rahul’s nuclear metaphor that lit the fuse. “BJP people showed us black flags. Let me tell them: you’ve heard of an atom bomb, but there’s something even bigger – a hydrogen bomb. In Mahadevapura, we showed you the atom bomb of fake votes.
Now, be ready, because a hydrogen bomb is coming. Soon, the entire nation will know the truth of your vote chori,” he declared, drawing loud cheers. Rahul claimed Congress had already exposed how in Karnataka’s Mahadevapura constituency, one lakh fake votes were added. He alleged that Maharashtra too witnessed a large-scale theft, where “one crore new voters were mysteriously inserted between the Lok Sabha and assembly elections, and every single new vote went to the BJP alliance.” According to him, the Congress-Shiv Sena-NCP coalition had won the people’s mandate in Maharashtra, but the BJP “stole the election with the help of the Election Commission.”
