Election Commission must respond to SIR irregularity allegations, says Ram Madhav

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national vice-president V. Ram Madhav said on Friday that the Election Commission of India (ECI) would have to respond to allegations of large-scale irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. He also indicated that Narendra Modi would remain the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, saying that Mr. Modi would win two or three more elections.

Addressing a memorial lecture, ‘Ism Nee Payanam Etu’, after releasing the book Jaateeya Bhavam Karuvaina Communistlu here, Mr. Ram Madhav said the Congress and other Opposition parties should decide whether their victories in Kerala, Karnataka and Telangana were achieved because of “crumbs” from the BJP. He said the Opposition should not contest elections if it genuinely believed that the electoral system was rigged.