Karnataka’s primary electoral officer (CEO) on Thursday asked AICC leader Rahul Gandhi to provide a signed statement with the names of qualified citizens he thinks are erased and disqualified citizens included the electoral rolls.
The CEO’s action came right after Gandhi, who is likewise the Opposition leader in the Lok Sabha, declared big scale rigging in elections in the Bangalore Lok Sabha seat, in 2015, in which the Congress lost. He implicated the election commission of India (ECI) of engineering citizen list control at the request of the BJP.
The Karnataka CEO, in his letter, stated the authorities had actually shared the prepared electoral rolls of unique summary modification (SSR) with the Congress celebration in November 2024 and shared the last rolls in January 2025. The Congress did not submit any objections to these.
The CEO highlighted in his letter that as far as the conduct of elections were worried, one might question the outcomes just by an election petition before the high court.
The CEO’s letter pointed out Gandhi’s interview in Delhi previously in the day, targeting the ECI, and declaring that it consisted of disqualified citizens and omitted qualified citizens in the electoral rolls.
The CEO, together with his letter, sent out a composed statement to the AICC leader and asked him to sign and return it in addition to particular details on missing out on names. Gandhi was informed to discuss names of citizens included/excluded, part variety of the electoral roll and identification number in the electoral roll. The statement states the signatory (Gandhi) knows that making an incorrect statement or offering incorrect proof is punishable offenses under both Representation of People’s Act, 1950 and Bhartiya Nyaya Samhita, 2023.
Previously, at journalism conference in Delhi, Gandhi, who is likewise the leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, declared that about 65,000 votes were cast in simply 10 minutes in Bangalore Central constituency throughout the LS surveys, in 2015. In Mahadevapura assembly section of Bangalore Central there were 1,00,250 votes that were fake/duplicate/fraudulent/ bulk votes/votes with void photos/votes.