100% proof of ECI allowing cheating, will not allow poll body to get away with it: Rahul Gandhi

The Hindu

4 days ago

The Congress has "concrete 100% proof" that the Election Commission allowed cheating in a constituency in Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday (July 24, 2025) and warned the poll panel that it will not get away with this "because we are going to come for you".
Mr. Gandhi alleged that the Election Commission is not functioning as the Election Commission of India, and is "not doing its job".
Asked about the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's reported remarks that the option of boycotting Bihar Assembly polls was open, Mr. Gandhi told reporters that his party has "concrete 100 per cent proof" of the Election Commission allowing cheating in a seat in Karnataka.
"Not 90%, when we decide to show it to you, it is a 100% proof," the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said.
"We just looked at one constituency and we found this. I am absolutely convinced that constituency after constituency this is the drama that is taking place. Thousands and thousands of new voters, how old are they? -- 45, 50, 60, 65, thousands and thousands of them in one constituency. This is one thing, voter deletion, voter addition, new voters who are way above 18 (is going on)... so we have caught them," he said.
"I want to send a message to the Election Commission — if you thing you are going to get away with this, if your officers think they are going to get away with this, you are mistaken, you are not going to get away with this because we are going to come for you," Mr. Gandhi told reporters in Parliament House premises.
The Congress leader on Wednesday alleged that elections are being "stolen" in India and claimed that his party has figured out the modus operandi of the "votes theft" by studying a Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka.
Gandhi said he would put before the people and the Election Commission in black in white on how the "theft of votes" is being done.
His remarks came after it emerged that during house-to-house visit in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral roll in Bihar, poll officials have so far found that more than 52 lakh voters were not present at their addresses.
The opposition has been protesting in both houses of Parliament against the SIR, alleging that the EC's exercise was aimed at disenfranchising voters in Bihar ahead of the assembly elections.