LUCKNOW, Oct. 24 -- The Congress on Saturday demanded an impartial investigation into the country's voter lists and a halt to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process after errors were detected in the voter list for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council election.

Citing the UP MLC polls (held on Friday), Jairam Ramesh, general secretary in charge of communications, Indian National Congress, wrote on X in Hindi: "The Election Commission is trying to deflect the blame for a premeditated conspiracy orchestrated to assist the BJP onto the software, which is unacceptable." Ramesh also cited the Pilibhit assembly case, where the post-SIR electoral roll reportedly had discrepancies in the details of over 10,000 voters.

Ramesh demanded the ...