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Karnataka Minister Satish Jarkiholi has issued a clarification regarding his earlier remarks on the Special Intensive Revision exercise and the deletion of nearly one crore votes in the state. Addressing the media, the minister stated that his previous statement was misinterpreted. He clarified that his remarks were intended to highlight the Bharatiya Janata Party's alleged attempts to remove Congress voters from electoral rolls via Form 7, which were thwarted through protests led by Rahul Gandhi and guidance from state leadership. The clarification followed contradictions from within the Karnataka Congress regarding the conduct of the voter revision exercise.

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00:00Let's get your details now on what's happening in Karnataka,
00:04where we've seen some signs of chinks in the armour in the Karnataka Congress after the MLC polls,
00:08and now Karnataka Minister Satish Jarkiholi issuing a clarification over his now viral remark on SIR.
00:16Remember earlier, the minister had said that they are fully content with the SIR exercise in Karnataka.
00:22They have no objections whatsoever to the deletion of nearly one crore votes in Karnataka.
00:28Now Jarkiholi has made a U-turn, explaining that his statement was actually intended to highlight
00:32the efforts by the BJP to remove Congress voters from the voter list through Form 7,
00:38and that that had been thwarted by protests led by Rahul Gandhi.
00:41This is his clarification now, and I'll leave it to you to decide whether you're by this response or not.
00:47First said, we're fully content with SIR.
00:49Now he says, I was highlighting that the Congress's protest was successful against SIR.
00:55Jarkiholi now has credited Rahul Gandhi, credited D.K. Shivkumar,
00:59reiterated his position on the illegal deletion of eligible voters' names.
01:03This comes after many within the Karnataka Congress contradicted Satish Jarkiholi,
01:07saying, no, we're not okay with the manner in which SIR was conducted in Karnataka.
01:14Hello everyone, welcome to the Karnataka, and I'll leave it to the Karnataka, and I'll leave it to the Karnataka.
01:33I'll leave it to the Karnataka.
02:06I'll leave it to the Karnataka.
02:36So, we are all trained in Karnatak.
02:43We have to do this.
02:45We have to delete one of our bodies.
02:48We have to delete one of our bodies.
02:49We have to delete one of our bodies.

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