Chowkidar Chor To Vote Chori: Can Rahul Gandhi Steal The Excessive-Stakes Bihar Present With EC Marketing campaign?

Final Up to date:August 10, 2025, 18:31 IST

Bihar ballot outcomes will present success of marketing campaign. If the Congress+RJD lose, it will likely be seen as a failure of one more marketing campaign by Gandhi, similar to Rafael & Chowkidar Chor Hai

Congress chief and LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi addresses the occasion’s ‘Vote Adhikar Rally’, in Bengaluru, on Friday. (PTI)

Rahul Gandhi is on a mission – it’s to shake the boldness of individuals within the electoral system. However will his stir towards the Election Fee (EC) finish like his ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’ marketing campaign?

The story goes again to the outcomes of Maharashtra and Haryana. Because the win for the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) turned clear, many within the Congress have been startled, particularly these near Gandhi. They have been satisfied one thing was fishy.

Gandhi was satisfied that the loss was not Congress’s fault however it was pressured by the BJP and EC working in tandem. And that’s when the concept of Empowered Motion Group of Leaders and Consultants (EAGLE) got here up with its concentrate on working of the EC and polls.

Sources say the whole marketing campaign towards the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR), ‘vote choro’ is being monitored and micromanaged by Gandhi personally.

He has instructed his occasion colleagues to make sure all push this marketing campaign, as a result of if there may be ballot irregularity “irrespective of how exhausting we work we are going to by no means win”.

INDIA bloc, TMC & #votechori

Gandhi has taken many initiatives. One, personally reaching out to the as soon as fragmented Indian Nationwide Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc leaders.

The large success was to get the Trinamool Congress, which has been miffed with the Congress for a number of causes, on board. In actual fact, sources say the Congress appointed a TMC chief Mamata Banerjee-pliant Congress chief Subhankar Sarkar because the Bengal Congress chief to placate the TMC. So when he picked up the cellphone, and spoke to Abhishek Banerjee and requested to return collectively on the SIR situation, it was not robust to take action as even the TMC is preventing a marketing campaign towards the BJP and EC forward of state polls in 2026.

It was after a very long time that the TMC attended a get-together hosted by the Congress.

Not simply stopping at this, Gandhi additionally requested the highest leaders to make sure that all occasion leaders sink their variations to battle collectively on the SIR and #votechori marketing campaign. It was due to Gandhi’s insistence that Shashi Tharoor and Manish Tewari have been reached out to – and lo and behold, each stood firmly with the occasion on the EC situation.

‘Vote Adhikar Yatra’

However Gandhi will not be stopping at this. He has launched a web-based individuals’s marketing campaign asking them both to click on on a hyperlink or give a missed name. That is to make sure that an increasing number of individuals assist him.

This can be adopted by a sort of Bharat Jodo Yatra known as ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ from Sasaram in Bihar to “get up” individuals to what he calls the “tyranny of the EC”. This yatra will final for about 15 days, culminating in an enormous INDIA bloc rally in Patna.

Sasaram is an fascinating alternative to start because it was as soon as the dominion of Raja Harishchandra who had forsaken his kingdom for his rules, a story Gandhi desires to push about himself.

However is Gandhi placing all his eggs in a single basket? Is it a threat price taking? As a result of the results of the chance would be the Bihar ballot outcomes. If the Congress + RJD lose, it will likely be seen as a failure of one more marketing campaign by Gandhi, similar to like Rafael and ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’.

It’s a litmus take a look at second for Rahul Gandhi as soon as once more.

Pallavi Ghosh

Pallavi Ghosh has lined politics and Parliament for 15 years, and has reported extensively on Congress, UPA-I and UPA-II, and has now included the Finance Ministry and Niti Aayog in her reportage. She has als…Learn Extra

Pallavi Ghosh has lined politics and Parliament for 15 years, and has reported extensively on Congress, UPA-I and UPA-II, and has now included the Finance Ministry and Niti Aayog in her reportage. She has als… Learn Extra

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