Mangaluru, 23 June

New KPCC President BK Hariprasad alleged on Tuesday that the BJP government at the Centre was using the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to create a Hindu Rashtra.

Speaking at the South Canara District Committee meeting at the Kudmul Ranga Rao Town Hall in Mangaluru, Hariprasad stated that “Under the guise of SIR, BJP and RSS are carrying out a conspiracy to disenfranchise genuine voters”.

Stating that “deleting voters by citing documentation is lethal to democracy”, he asked who is mapping the native residents of South Canara district, such as the Malekudiyas, Koragas, and Alemaris in remote villages, suggesting that the exercise could disenfranchise minority and tribal communities.

“Whether Christians or Muslims, RSS and BJP know how to remove minorities and they do it,” Hariprasad said, according to a release on X. “Their aim is to make it a Hindu nation; if they say none of them is a citizen of the country, that's it, isn't it? That conspiracy is being carried out through SIR.”

He urged Congress workers to go door to door and protect the right of every voter.