Rahul Gandhi revisited his explosive claim of “massive criminal fraud” in the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha election. (Photo: X)
Rahul Gandhi escalated his allegations of vote manipulation in the 2024 polls during a fiery Bengaluru rally. He called the alleged vote theft a “criminal act against the people of Karnataka.” He insisted the Election Commission of India (ECI) must release the full electronic voter list—and warned that refusal would signal complicity in election fraud.
“This is a criminal act against the people of Karnataka,” he declared. He demanded, “The Election Commission of India must immediately release the entire electronic voter list of the country. If they refuse to do so, it means they are hiding a crime and helping the BJP in election theft.”
Rahul Gandhi revisited his explosive claim of “massive criminal fraud” in the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha election. He alleged that 1,00,250 fake votes influenced the result in favour of the BJP. His detailed breakdown included:
“There is 100% voter theft in the Lok Sabha elections as well. The vote is the weapon of India’s poor, farmers, workers, and small traders. As members of the Congress Party, we will protect that right.”
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Gandhi also pressed for a Karnataka government investigation into the irregularities, emphasizing the need to hold officials accountable.
He condemned what he described as suspicious actions by the Election Commission.
“Today, when the people of India began questioning the Election Commission’s website, the ECI shut it down. Websites in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Bihar were also taken offline,” he said.
“They know that if people start questioning the Election Commission, the truth will come out, and the entire façade will collapse.”
He argued that releasing the full e‑voter data would expose systemic problems across the country—and reaffirm the ECI’s duty to the Constitution, not any political party.
“The Election Commission doesn’t belong to the BJP; it belongs to the Constitution of India. What happened in Karnataka was seat theft. And let me be clear, we didn’t just expose one case. I’m certain there’s a lot more.”
Rahul Gandhi framed these allegations as an attack on India’s democratic foundation.
“The Constitution rests on a simple idea, ‘one person, one vote’. If you attack that, you’re attacking the Constitution itself. You’re attacking the poor, the farmers, the workers, and the small traders of this country.”
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He vowed to bring perpetrators to justice, “If you think you’ll get away with this, think again. It might take time, but we will catch you, one by one. If you attack the Constitution, the people of Hindustan will rise. This is the voice of India.”
He warned that efforts to delete or destroy voter data equate to tampering with criminal evidence: “If someone is destroying that data, they’re not just tampering with information, they’re destroying criminal evidence and becoming complicit in the crime.”
Gandhi noted that Congress spent six months unearthing one case. He pledged to intensify the probe across dozens more seats, armed with paper records.
“We have paper copies. You cannot hide. And you cannot remain silent. Sooner or later, you will have to face the Opposition and the truth.”
He even linked the controversy to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mandate, “Narendra Modi is Prime Minister today with just 240 seats. We’ve already shown that even one of those was stolen. He won 35 of those seats by less than 35,000 votes. If we gain access to the electronic voter data, we will prove that the Prime Minister came to power through electoral fraud.”
Every major party, he said, stands with him on this issue.
“Why is the Election Commission hiding this data? I am the Leader of the Opposition… Every political party in India is demanding answers. The Election Commission must release the data now.”
The “Our Vote, Our Right, Our Struggle” rally saw Rahul Gandhi joined by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar, and several state leaders. Attendees plan to march to the Chief Electoral Officer’s office with a memorandum demanding access to voter data.
EC officials challenged Gandhi to submit formal declarations, as required under electoral law, or else retract his allegations. The CEO, Karnataka has offered Rahul Gandhi a time slot—1 PM to 3 PM on August 8—to comply. Gandhi’s refusal so far underscores the mounting tension between political demands and institutional control.
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