NEW DELHI: In a scathing attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI), Congress leader and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi has termed the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as "no reform but an imposed oppression", linking it directly to the deaths of 16 Booth Level Officers (BLOs) over nearly three weeks.

PHAGWARA: The All India Ranghreta Dal on Sunday warned that it would launch a sharp and widespread agitation across Punjab if state Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring is not arrested within a week for allegedly making a caste-based remark against former Union Home Minister the late Buta Singh during the Tarn Taran by-election campaign.