To buttress his allegation, Rahul Gandhi cited data from a Karnataka assembly constituency to claim that votes of Congress supporters were being systematically deleted.
The Election Commission, however, dubbed the allegations “incorrect and baseless,” stating, “No deletion of any vote can be done online by any member of the public, as misconceived by Gandhi.”
In a post in Hindi on X on Friday, Gandhi said,
“Wake up at 4 a.m. Eliminate two voters in 36 seconds,
Then go back to sleep – this is how vote theft happens!
Chunaav ka chawkidaar jaagta raha, chori dekhta raha, choron ko bachata raha
(The election watchman stayed awake, watched the theft, and protected the thieves),” the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha charged.
Gandhi also shared a 36-second video from his press conference in which he explains the modus operandi of the alleged “vote theft.”
Earlier, in a post on Thursday evening, Gandhi had said,
“The nation’s youth, the nation’s students, the nation’s Gen Z, will defend the Constitution, protect democracy, and stop vote theft. I always stand with them. Jai Hind!”
In his fresh offensive against the Election Commission, Gandhi stated on Thursday that the poll panel must stop protecting “vote chors” and provide, within a week, the information sought by the Karnataka CID in an investigation into voter deletions.
“If not, it will be known for sure that the poll body is complicit in the ‘murder of the Constitution’,” Gandhi alleged at his press conference held at the Congress’ Indira Bhawan headquarters.
He also clarified that this was not the “hydrogen bomb” revelation he had promised — that update would come soon.
Gandhi cited details of alleged attempts to delete 6,018 votes in Karnataka’s Aland constituency in the run-up to the 2023 assembly polls.
He further gave the example of Maharashtra’s Rajura constituency, where he claimed 6,850 voters were added in a “fraudulent” manner using automated software.
“Same system is doing this. It is doing it in Karnataka, Maharashtra, it has done it in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and we have proof of it,” the Congress leader alleged.
“Our demand is Gyanesh Kumar, do your job. You have taken an oath, you are India’s chief election commissioner, you must give evidence to the Karnataka CID,” Gandhi said, directly addressing the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC).
He also urged the CEC to “stop giving excuses” and immediately release evidence to the Karnataka CID.
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