Gogoi posts a ten-point 'Modi-Shah-ECI package', from SIR and delimitation to faulty EVMs

Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on Monday put the opposition’s case against the election machinery into a single list, a ten-point “Modi-Shah-Election Commission of India package” posted on X, covering the voter-roll revision, the redrawing of constituencies, electoral bonds, the Model Code of Conduct and the voting machines.

Gogoi, a Lok Sabha member and the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president, opened the post with the line “Modi- Shah - Election Commission of India package for people of India.” The ten items that follow are written as one-line charges, each naming a lever he says the ruling side and the Commission hold between them.

What the post says

The list begins with “Delimitation - redrawing of constituency” and “SIR - including fake and deleting genuine voters”, the latter a reference to the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls now under way in several states. The third point reads “Electoral bonds - for corporate donors to get zero IT-ED raids”. The bonds scheme was struck down by the Supreme Court, and Gogoi’s line ties it to what he says is protection from tax and enforcement action for donors.

The remaining points are aimed at how elections are run and who runs them. Gogoi accuses the government of backing the “break-up of opposition parties and freeze symbols”, and of transfers of officers on the principle that “more you bend, the higher your promotion”. He lists “legal protection for chief election commissioner”, the “scheduling of election campaigns”, and a Model Code of Conduct under which, he writes, people “get away with most vile communal remarks and hate speech”. The last two points are “EVMs - faulty” and “Scrutiny of candidates- disqualify opposition candidates”.

The post carries no new evidence or case citations. It is a political summary of charges the Congress and its allies have made separately over the past months, now gathered under a single heading that names the Prime Minister, the Home Minister and the Commission together.

How we got here

The list arrives in the middle of a sharp exchange over the SIR. Gogoi had said in Guwahati on October 23 that the Commission had been emptied of its constitutional authority and that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar “has to go”, as we reported at the time. The INDIA bloc has since demanded his removal and a rollback of the revision, and held a mock Parliament on the subject.

On November 5, at a rally in Karnal, Haryana, Home Minister Amit Shah said the government was “ready to convene a special session of Parliament to discuss the SIR exercise”, but told Rahul Gandhi to write to the Prime Minister and raise the matter inside the House. “Rahul baba is worried, and so he wants to blame his defeat on SIR,” he said, and asked “Where was SIR in 2014?” Shah had said in Parliament on December 10, 2025, that the SIR could not be debated there because it fell to the Election Commission, which he called an independent constitutional body.

Gandhi answered on November 6 with a video setting the two Shah statements side by side. “Amit Shah ji, don’t confuse Modi ji. Just convince him to have an open debate with me,” he wrote on X. “Any platform, any time. Don’t be afraid.” He had earlier, on November 4, renewed his challenge to the Prime Minister on any platform of Modi’s choosing.

The Commission’s own latest step

On the ground, the revision continues. On Friday the Election Commission instructed the chief electoral officers of seven states, Delhi, Maharashtra, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Telangana and Nagaland, to give voters marked absent, shifted, dead or duplicate another chance to be included in the final rolls. Booth-wise lists of those left off are to be displayed and posted online, and electors can file enumeration forms through ECINET or to booth-level officers.

Why it matters

The SIR decides who is on the rolls in the states where it is run, and the charge that genuine voters are being removed goes to whether people can vote at all. Delimitation decides how many seats a region gets, and the legal status of the Chief Election Commissioner determines who can be questioned over either. By gathering them into one list, Gogoi is trying to turn separate disputes into one argument that the rules of the contest are being set by one side.

The Congress has not said whether it will take any of the ten points to court or to Parliament. The government and the Commission have rejected earlier versions of the charges, and neither had responded to Monday’s post at the time of writing.

What next

The government’s stated position is that a special session on the SIR can be convened if the Congress formally asks for one. Shah said that at Karnal, and Gandhi’s reply on November 6 asked instead for a debate with the Prime Minister himself. The standoff over the form of the discussion remains open, and the SIR continues in the meantime.