Jairam Ramesh invokes Rawat's SIR critique, flags 'Vote Chori' threat

New Delhi, Oct 1 (UNI) Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh on Thursday cited former Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat's criticism of the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, arguing that the controversy over electoral-roll revisions had become part of a wider struggle to safeguard public confidence in India's electoral system. In a post on social media platform X, Ramesh referred to Rawat's recent interview with a leading national daily and quoted the former CEC as saying that the scale of voter exclusion under the SIR was unprecedented since Independence. "It is 'the first time since Independence…