Hubballi, June 26 -- Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Pralhad Joshi, on Friday criticised the Congress over its opposition to the Election Commission of India's (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, questioning why the party was objecting to the exercise despite having allegedly benefited from it in previous elections.

Speaking to reporters in Hubballi, Joshi said the Congress was adopting contradictory positions on the electoral roll revision process and accused the party of raising baseless objections for political reasons.

"Why are they (Congress) afraid? These very people have said that they won in Kerala because of SIR. You won in Telangana--no problem. You won in Jharkhand--no...