Bihar SIR exercise: No one has any problem except opposition, says BJP

NEW DELHI: BJP spokesperson Ajay Alok on Wednesday justified the ongoing SIR exercise of the voter list in Bihar , saying no one has any problem with it except the opposition, whose concerns are driven by vote bank politics.

"The opposition parties are very worried about its Bangladeshi, Rohingya, Myanmar, Nepali brothers. Election Commission is doing its job. 88% people have uploaded their forms. No one has any problem with this except the opposition," Alok told reporters.

Alok also accused Congress neta Rahul Gandhi of being a "habitual liar and offender" when it comes to disrespecting the armed forces .

Hitting back at Rahul for his "circus" jibe at the govt's handling of China issue after EAM S Jaishankar met Chinese President Xi Jinping, Union minister Kiren Rijiju said he would advise the LoP in LS to cooperate on foreign policy matters & avoid making comments "against the country".

"When our foreign minister goes to China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting and if he does not meet his Chinese counterpart and the country's president, then who will he meet? Italy's PM?" Alok asked.

Tagging a media report on Jaishankar calling on Xi and apprising him of recent developments in India-China ties, Rahul had said the minister was "running a full-blown circus aimed at destroying India's foreign policy".

Two days after a court granted bail to Rahul in a defamation case filed over his remarks against the armed forces, Alok accused him of being a "habitual liar and offender".