Chandigarh, Nov. 4 -- Hamirpur MP and former Union minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of portraying electoral defeats as "vote chori (vote theft)" instead of introspecting on the grand old party's declining public support.

Defending the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Thakur said the Opposition should flag specific discrepancies through prescribed procedures rather than casting aspersions on democratic institutions.

Addressing a press conference at the BJP Chandigarh Pradesh headquarters in Sector 33, Thakur cited figures from Punjab to argue that the revision process had resulted in an increase in the number of registered electors between the draft and final...