India, Jan. 9 -- Union Minister Chirag Paswan on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Congress and other Opposition parties, saying they are questioning the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to preempt excuses for future election defeats.

The opposition parties are fast losing their popular mandate because they are not raising people's issues, the LJP (Ram Vilas) leader said, highlighting the NDA's thumping win in recent Bihar Assembly elections.

Asked about a social media post by SP leader Akhilesh Yadav on the SIR issue, Paswan said, "Citizenship is not being revoked. They (opposition parties) are losing their support base and popular mandate, and that is what is bothering them."

Yadav said that the BJP government...