Bihar 2025: India’s Election Theft Caught in Broad Daylight
Bihar 2025: India’s Election Theft
Caught in Broad Daylight
The Bihar election results may
very well become the clearest proof yet of how the BJP steals elections while
the nation watches helplessly. The entire country remembers the hurried Special
Revision (SIR) ordered in July 2025, when over 6.5 million voters were
mysteriously deleted from the rolls. These were the same citizens who voted
without issue in the 2024 national elections, yet they suddenly vanished the
moment the State elections arrived. Even the Supreme Court asked the Election
Commission of India (ECI) to explain these mass deletions, but the ECI chose to
remain silent, the most reliable shield of the guilty.
Independent reporters have since
exposed a troubling pattern: in 128 constituencies won by the NDA, the victory
margins were smaller than the number of legally registered voters who had been
removed from the list. In any functioning democracy, such discrepancies would
spark recounts, investigations, or even re-elections. In today’s India, such
anomalies barely raise an eyebrow.
The postal ballots reveal an even clearer contradiction: in 142 constituencies,
Mahagathbandhan candidates secured a majority of postal votes, while only 98
constituencies saw NDA candidates ahead. These ballots come from educated
citizens, soldiers, government employees, and civil servants people who
understand governance and overwhelmingly rejected the NDA. Their preference
sharply contradicts the final declared results, exposing the farce even
further.
What happened in Bihar was not an
election; it was a robbery. It was vote chori, or more accurately, vote looting,
conducted openly, brazenly, and with the confidence of a ruling establishment
that knows it can bend institutions at will. The people of Bihar have every
right to question whether they must now tolerate a government they did not
elect, and whether their state’s resources will once again be siphoned off to
Gujarat-based corporate allies parading as “development partners.” The rights
of the people were stolen in full view of the media, the judiciary, and the
Election Commission and each of these institutions chose to look away.
The ECI disregarded court orders,
dodged questions about duplicate and deleted votes, and proceeded with the
election as if everything were legitimate. This was not a democratic exercise it
was political theater. Scholars across India have long urged the opposition to
reconsider participating in such rigged contests. It is no longer enough to
post condemnations on social media or call on the youth to protest especially
when no leader is prepared to take real risks.
Pressure must return to the
courts, even if they prefer silence. The opposition must flood the system with
FIRs, affidavits, and legal challenges. When the ECI demanded an affidavit from
Rahul Gandhi, he should have taken the fight public signing the document openly
before the media and forcing the Commission to justify its actions. This is no
time for politeness or moral restraint. Rahul Gandhi must stop playing the
“nice guy” in a political battlefield where his opponents have no ethics, no
boundaries, and no fear of consequences. He is confronting a machinery drenched
in corruption, protected by institutions that no longer feel answerable to the
people.
What happened in Bihar is not
merely a state-level tragedy; it is a national warning. A democracy that allows
elections to be scripted loses both its soul and its future. Today, those drunk
on power have become so blinded by arrogance that even institutions once
trusted to uphold justice refuse to stand with the innocent. Bihar was robbed not
quietly, not subtly, but openly. The question now is whether India will accept
this as the new normal, or whether the fight to reclaim democracy will finally
begin in earnest.
I have no idea who advises Rahul Gandhi, but he seems to have learned nothing from Mahatma Gandhi’s freedom movement. Mahatma used the media and public pressure brilliantly to expose the crimes of the government, while Rahul keeps missing opportunities handed to him on a platter.
ReplyDeleteWhen the ECI demanded a signed affidavit from him, that was the perfect moment. He should have signed it publicly, right in front of the people and the media, and then demanded immediate action from the ECI. A public signing would have meant complete transparency, leaving no room for the ECI to hide or escape accountability. If the ECI then failed to act, public outrage would have intensified automatically.
Rahul keeps fighting a moral battle, but he forgets that the government he is up against has no morality left.
You are absolutely right. In fact, I had written a blog suggesting exactly this that Rahul should have taken that opportunity and signed the affidavit publicly. But I guess some people around him are more interested in seeing him fail than succeed, and may have advised him not to sign. He needs solid legal guidance rooted in constitutional strategy, not the kind of advice cooked up in political backrooms.
DeleteEscalating litigation seems like a good idea. What about alternatives to Rahul? Does India have an AOC or a Jasmine Crockett?
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