Archive · 23 Sep 2025
Congress Launches Pilot Project to Combat Electoral Irregularities
The Congress party is starting a project to make sure elections are fair.
They're hiring people called 'booth rakshaks' to watch over the voter lists in a few areas.
These 'booth rakshaks' will look for mistakes like people voting multiple times or names of dead people still on the list.
They will also learn how to deal with these problems.
The goal is to make sure everyone's vote counts and there is no cheating.
This project is starting in places where the Congress party lost by a small number of votes.
Congress is launching a pilot project using 'booth rakshaks' to detect electoral irregularities.
The project aims to train party workers to identify and report issues in voter lists.
Five Lok Sabha constituencies, where the party lost by narrow margins in 2024, are included.
Booth rakshaks will oversee 10 booths each, supported by a team of Booth Level Agents.
Training includes identifying issues like duplicate voters and deceased individuals on voter lists.
- Who
- Congress party
- What
- Initiating a pilot project to appoint 'booth rakshaks' to monitor electoral rolls for irregularities.
- When
- Not explicitly stated, but initiated after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
- Where
- Five Lok Sabha constituencies: Jaipur Rural, Alwar, Janjgir-Champa, Morena, Bansgaon.
- Why
- To detect and report irregularities in electoral rolls, addressing concerns about 'vote chori'.
- Project Name
- Booth Rakshaks
- Political Party
- Congress
- Focus
- Detecting electoral roll irregularities
- Number of Constituencies
- 5
- Constituencies
- Jaipur Rural, Alwar, Janjgir-Champa, Morena, Bansgaon
- Role of Booth Rakshaks
- Oversee 10 booths each