New Delhi: Amid ongoing protests in parliament demanding a discussion on the electoral roll revision in Bihar through the contentious Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi trained his guns on the poll body and said that it is “not doing its job”. Meanwhile the Congress has said that “all options” including the boycott of the elections are open before the INDIA alliance.“Election Commission is not functioning as the Election Commission of India. The fact of the matter is that the Election Commission is not doing its job,” said Gandhi to reporters outside parliament.Gandhi’s remarks came as members of the INDIA alliance for the third consecutive day, staged a protest outside parliament against the Bihar SIR holding placards and banners. Both houses saw loud protests by the opposition, along with repeated adjournments as the government refused to yield to a discussion on the Bihar SIR and accused the opposition of not allowing parliament to function. The Congress’ Bihar in-charge Krishna Allavaru accused the Election Commission of putting out false data through its daily updates on the ongoing SIR in Bihar and said that “all options” are open before the INDIA bloc including boycotting the elections,“The Election Commission has initiated a dictatorial process through SIR. We believe that all the data provided by the Election Commission is completely false. The process that the Election Commission outlined in its order on June 24 is not being followed. Therefore, all the data the Election Commission is displaying on its website or elsewhere is utterly false,” said Allavaru while addressing reporters in New Delhi.“On behalf of the people of Bihar, we openly challenge Mr. Gyanesh Kumar to randomly select a thousand people in every assembly and verify whether the process is being followed or not. If even 25% of the data turns out to be correct, we are ready to accept this process. The reality is that the certificates being demanded are not even in people’s possession.‘60.1 lakh electors out of Bihar rolls’The Election Commission in its daily release on July 24 said that forms of 91.32% or 7.21 crore electors have been collected, while 1 lakh electors remain untraceable. The commission also said that 60.1 lakh electors have been found to be deceased, migrated or registered at more than one place.Allavaru alleged that Booth Level Officers (BLO) are arbitrarily filling out forms, and that in some places Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) officers were allegedly filling out forms. In response to a question on whether the INDIA bloc will boycott the elections in Bihar, Allavaru said “all options are being discussed”.“This process is to steal votes and the election. The opposition is standing with the people. Talks are going on, on all options. But this much is clear the way in which votes are being stolen is not just about Bihar but the rest of the country as well. We are conducting talks on all options, all options are open when a decision is taken it will be communicated,” he said.Allavaru’s remarks came as former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav too said in Patna that the option to boycott the assembly election is “open” and the decision will be taken with alliance partners.Gandhi meanwhile also alleged that the Congress has “concrete 100% proof of the Election Commission allowing cheating in a seat in Karnataka” which will be brought out before the public.“I am absolutely convinced that constituency after constituency this is the drama that is being played. Thousands and thousands of new voters, how old are they? 50,45,60, 65 new voters. And this is one thing-Voter deletion, addition, new voters who are above 18. And I want to send a message to the Election Commission, if you think you are going to get away with this, if you think your officers will get away with this you are mistaken. We are going to come for you.”‘Yet to clarify whether they’ll take up SIR for discussion’Inside parliament, the government which has agreed to a discussion on Operation Sindoor and the Pahalgam terror attack, is yet to make its stand clear on a discussion on SIR. This as the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting on July 23 agreed to a 16 hour discussion in each house next week. Inside the house however, the BJP has maintained that it is ready for discussion on all issues and accused the opposition of disrupting proceedings.In the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said to Congress MP and general secretary organisation that “slogan-shouting and bringing placards into the House were never part of the Congress’ values.” “The new generation of Congress leaders seems unable to grasp this legacy. The entire nation is witnessing how they are disrupting the proceedings and wasting crores of rupees by shouting slogans and displaying placards in the House. After the question hour, you will be allowed to speak on all issues. The House will not function if placards are brought inside.”However, like the previous two days, the house was adjourned at 2pm and no discussion took place with the stalemate continuing.“It’s strange that after three days of Opposition protest, the government has yet to clarify whether they’ll take up SIR for discussion. They’re remaining silent and secretive. Is it something to hide? Because they are literally stealing people’s right to exercise their votes,” said deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi.